Sterling Brown Quotes (7 Quotes)

I have . . . a deep concern with the development of a literature worthy of our past, and of our destiny without which literature certainly, we can never come to much. I have a deep concern with the development of an audience worthy of such a literature.

One thing they cannot prohibit -- The strong men . . . coming on; The strong men gittin' stronger. Strong men. . . . Stronger. . . .

I wanted to understand my people. I wanted to understand what it meant to he a Negro. what the qualities of life were. With their imagination, they combine two great loves the love of words and the love of life. Poetry results.

We send a crew out to move them just as if they hired a moving company themselves.

Propaganda, however legitimate, can speak no louder than the truth.

Dialect or the speech of the people is capable of expressing whatever the people are.

The sincere, sensitive artist, willing to go beneath the cliches of popular belief to get at an underlying reality, will be wary of confining a race's entire characters to a half-dozen narrow grooves.