African American Artists

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    “I never feel so conscious of my race as I do when I stand before a class of twenty-five young men and women eager to learn about what it is to be black in America.”
    —Claire Oberon Garcia, African American college professor. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. B3 (July 27, 1994)

    “... the Black woman in America can justly be described as a “slave of a slave.””
    —Frances Beale, African American feminist and civil rights activist. The Black Woman, ch. 14 (1970)

    “Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.”
    —Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951)

    “The upshot was, my paintings must burn
    that English artists might finally learn.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)