All art points to others with whom the writer argues about what is . . . He must have models with which to agree . . . or outright oppose . . . for Nature seems to remain silence.
Source: Being and Race, 1970.
-- Charles B Johnson, (Jan 0 1948-____), US novelist, short-story writer, artist; He has published numerous short stories as well as the novel The Middle Passage, which won a National Book Award in 1990.