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I wanted to understand my people. I wanted to understand what it meant to he a Negro. what the qualities of life were. With their imagination, they combine two great loves: the love of words and the love of life. Poetry results.
Source: In New York Times Book Review, 11 Jan 1981.
-- Sterling Brown, (May 1 1901-1989), US poet, critic, educator; He tapped a rich poetic source in the folk songs and blues in Southern Road, 1932; co-edited important anthologies, e.g., The Negro Caravan, 1941.