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child growing up and being held by a mother's arms. To say something about what you feel about that, to say something about nature. To find that identity with nature, they go home. And sometimes when everybody's saying what a great, what a despicable tragedy, what is happening to these Negro artists and people, rising up in anger. Why is he writing so violently? Why is he saying such vulgar things and doing a play called The Toilet? He's saying something that I can find identity with, even if I go back thirty years, I can find an identity with what LeRoy Jones is saying today. He's of a different generation than I am, but I'm sure that Willard Motley would have found some identity with him. Imagine this, this young man, young as an artist...Langston Hughes today, he's almost sixty years old, I think, A YOUNG ARTIST, Langston Hughes today, he find something everyday that is meaningful out of his peoples life and what they're doing, and the changes that are taking place, and the changes that are there, the same way I find them. So you know whats behind my pictures, this so-called love that I talk about, this beautiful thing, this love affair with people, this universality, this universal symbol that I talk about that I'm trying to create here to have meaning to all people regardless of color, whats behind it? It's because I can feel identity with Watts, oddly enough I can see myself with Watts, I can still see Mississippi, no

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