I have . . . a deep concern with the development of a literature worthy of our past, and of our destiny; without which literature certainly, we can never come to much. I have a deep concern with the development of an audience worthy of such a literature.
Source: Our Literary Audience, in Opportunity, Feb 1930.
-- 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.