[T]he sincere, sensitive artist, willing to go beneath the cliches of popular belief to get at an underlying reality, will be wary of confining a race's entire characters to a half-dozen narrow grooves.
Source: Negro Character as Seen by While Authors, In The Journal of Negro Education, Apr 1933.
-- 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.