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have something that's going to be even richer than what I have...the Spanish war had some enrichment to me...the social consciousness of a nation that was speaking during my period when there were upheavals of all kinds, economic and political. But they're of a different quality today. We've got so much richer things going on for us, you know. You've got to watch to be inspired. There's very positive inspiration, frame of reference, believe me. It may be very hard for some people to believe that, how inspirational that can be to a Negro. How what magnificent things he can say out of that. That's a fantastic frame of reference for an artist. Much richer than whether Michelangelo did beautiful, magnificent things, going to Rome, going to Paris like the artists used to do. Negro artists used to go to Paris in the '20's...Gail Woodruff, Aaron Douglas, Langster Hughes, all of the writers, artists of the late '20's and early '30's went to Paris. So with the________ and __________, they went to Paris. Now somehow the artists are going to Mississippi. They're going to Washington. They go home. They go home. A lot of them never lived in a home, but somehow they go back there. They see it differently...see it differently. They're getting new, new blood. Which is what artists have to do to grow. To say something meaningful. To say something positive. To say something when you see it...just mother and child. To say something beautiful about a

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