If God wills the evangelization of the world, and you refuse to support missions, then you are opposed to the will of God.
Black art has always existed. It just hasn't been looked for in the right places.
You should always respect what you are and your culture because if your art is going to mean anything, that is where it comes from.
When I conjure these memories, they are of the present to me, because after all, the artist is a kind of enchanter in time.
What I've attempted to do is establish a world through art in which the validity of my Negro experience could live and make its own logic.
Sometimes the mind relives things very clearly for us. . . There are roads out of secret places within us along which we all must move as we go to touch others.
The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he really needs.
One meets the cat in nearly all forms of art. . . curiously enough she is not a conspicuous figure in Roman or Greek art.
I start where the last man left off.
The General hopes and trusts that every officer and man will endeavor to live and act as becomes a Christian soldier defending the dearest rights and liberties of his country.
She was my first love, and I loved her as only a boy loves.