Alain LeRoy Locke Quotes

#1. 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.

Alain LeRoy Locke

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

Alain LeRoy Locke

#3. 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.

Alain LeRoy Locke

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

Alain LeRoy Locke

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

Alain LeRoy Locke

#6. 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.

Alain LeRoy Locke