Gloria Naylor Quote

What an artist must do today is what artists started out doing with the cave markings and drawings in Dordogne — reach beyond the base machinations of their respective societies, in toward the space that sits apart from the bestial and testify to that space; document the existence of a core humanity; and with the documentation give witness to the same.

Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers 1967 to the Present (1995)