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• ‟ Manhattan was the capital of the twentieth century for black writers, artists, and intellectuals as much as it was for their white counterparts.

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• ‟ After Reconstruction, black newspapers evolved from being a propaganda arm into a kind of opposition press, because even the friends of former slaves had their fears.

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• ‟ When writing on black life, whites have often been unwelcome, usually called upon to give witness or hauled in as the accused.

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• ‟ 'High Cotton' is more conscious of class than 'Black Deutschland.'

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• ‟ I wrote 'Black Deutschland' very quickly one summer, probably because I had a lot of it in pieces and fragments sitting around over the years as false starts or notes.

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• ‟ Harlem exists in retrospect, in the memory of grandparents or elderly cousins, those 'old-timers' ever ready with their geysers of remembered scenes. The legends of 'Black Mecca' are preserved in the glossy musicals of Times Square and in texts of virtually every kind.

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• ‟ Steven Spielberg's 'The Color Purple' might as well have been about a bunch of dancing eggplants for all it has to say about black history.

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• ‟ When I was in high school, I looked for the black presence in a British historical tradition - before too much slavery and empire - that would not cost me my self-respect.

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• ‟ None of the black abolitionist newspapers, the first of which appeared in 1827, was in existence after the Civil War.

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• ‟ As long as white newspapers were unwilling or unable to attack 'anti-Negro' forces or to air the views of black reformers, there was a service black newspapers could provide.

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• ‟ Black America has always felt itself divided into two classes: the mucky-mucks and the folk.

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• ‟ Ellison was prominent on the lecture circuit even in the Black Aesthetic days of the Sixties when his defiantly pro-American and prickly-proud intellectual act met with some hostility.

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