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

Alain LeRoy Locke

Of all the voluminous literature on the Negro, so much is mere external view and commentary that we may warrantably say that nine-tenths of it is about the Negro rather than of him, so that it is the Negro problem rather than the Negro that is known.

Alain LeRoy Locke

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

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

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

Alain LeRoy Locke

Hitherto, it must be admitted that American Negroes have been a race more in name than in fact, or to be exact, more in sentiment than in experience. The chief bond between them has been that of a common condition rather than a common consciousness; a problem in common rather than a life in common.

Alain LeRoy Locke

Alain LeRoy Locke

Alain LeRoy Locke

Born: September 13, 1885

Died: June 9, 1954 (aged 68)

Bio: Alain Leroy Locke was an American writer, philosopher, educator, and patron of the arts. Distinguished as the first African American Rhodes Scholar in 1907, Locke was the philosophical architect the acknowledged "Dean" of the Harlem Renaissance.

Known for:

The New Negro: An Interpretation (1925)
The philosophy of Alain Locke
Race contacts and interracial relations
An Exhibition of African Art (1946)
The Negro and his music (1936)

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