Whatever it is I do or do not do in the paintings I paint really are attempts by me to communicate to the "Folks." While I could write yards on who the "Folks" are, just let it suffice to say for this time, they are "Us." The next question is automatically, who are "Us"? The answer to that automatic question at this moment is, "Us" are the "Folks," and I am one of them.

From Samella S. Lewis and Ruth G. Waddy, Black Artists on Art (1969)