The Younger Generation comes, bringing its gifts. They are the first fruits of the Negro Renaissance. Youth speaks, … - Alain LeRoy Locke

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This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention.

Alain LeRoy Locke

The Younger Generation comes, bringing its gifts. They are the first fruits of the Negro Renaissance. Youth speaks, and the voice of the New Negro is heard.

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Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.

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All classes of people under social pressure are permeated with a common experience; they are emotionally welded as others cannot be. With them, even ordinary living has epic depth and lyric intensity, and this, their material handicap, is their spiritual advantage.

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The younger generation is vibrant with a new psychology; the new spirit is awake in the masses. . . Each generation. . . will have its creed.

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Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver.

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We must never forget that the dance is the cradle of Negro music.

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