The Black Box by Henry Louis Gates Jr

Author:Henry Louis Gates, Jr. [Gates, Henry Louis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2024-03-19T00:00:00+00:00

A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized and acknowledged. The final measure of the greatness of all peoples is the amount and standard of the literature and art they have produced. The world does not know that a people is great until that people produces great literature and art. No people that has produced great literature and art has ever been looked upon by the world as distinctly inferior.

The status of the Negro in the United States is more a question of national mental attitude toward the race than of actual condition. And nothing will do more to change that mental attitude and raise his status than a demonstration of intellectual parity by the Negro through the production of literature and art.[17]

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