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these works of art by Negro artists, I'm not only deeply impressed with the work and moved by it, the emotion in it, the things that it says about people, the social comment, the comments just aren't comments, so to speak, about form and figures...this is all part of it...but I also see that this life of being a Negro artist or being a Negro in the arts has not changed too radically from the '30's. It don't seem to change very much. And it probably won't change in the near future. There is a Negro arrived, who is angry, who is painting about that anger, who is writing about that anger, as witness LeRoy Jones in the writing field, saying significant, beautiful things. And out of that anger, in the spite of the fact that I say I can't paint in anger, but out of that anger that those who can paint about it and those who can write about it, as well as those who can paint about love, only about love, and write only about love, will come something that I hope America is going to prepare itself to be ready to enrich itself with. I hope it's laying a basis now. I have questions about whether it's laying this basis. I'm not too optimistic about America and its capabilities of embracing either Negro art or the Negro person. But the Negro artist is going to go even farther beyond because he is inspired by something that I didn't have in the background. I have it today for frame of reference, but the younger ones

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