Barbara Hastings Quotes

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

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

(T)he 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.

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.

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