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“Black art, like everything else in the Black community, must respond positively to the reality of revolution. It must
become and remain a part of the revolutionary machinery that moves us to change quickly and creatively. We have
always said, and continue to say that the battle we are waging now is the battle for the minds of Black people... It
becomes very important then that art play the role it should play in Black survival... Black artists and those who wish
to be artists must accept the fact that what is needed is an aesthetic, a Black aesthetic that is a criterion for judging the
validity and/or beauty of a work of art.”
Dr. Samella S. Lewis
In the Presence of Silence by quiltmaker Phyllis Stephens
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