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important thing. Artists are heard, and they make their weight felt when they make their protest with their art. Artists are very poor politicians. They're poor business men, their poor politicians, they're rotten philosophers...ROTTEN PHILOSOPHERS. They're good when they talk about their personal philosophy, but Lord help them if you get into the realm of general philosophy, you know ideas and creative philosophy, or something. They're rotten politicians, philosophers, etc., but they are people who should be heard in these things. But they have a lot to lose along with other people in the world. I think that this kind of gesture, no matter what the criticism will be, will make it, and at least it will not be ignored. And that's the important thing.
...Art form that evolved and has evolved throughout town, and believe me, Brother, my head is bloody and sore from witnessing and having argued with some of my young friends about who are assemblage painters, and who are pop artists. They're going to try to show me what pop art is and the statement they're making through pop art form about Montgomery, or about Mississippi, and I find that that is hard put to see what that statement is. To read it, you know. But this is not important. First of all, Negro artists do this in all parts of the country. You find very important artists, people you may not hear about

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