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WRITERS > journalist, dramatist, literary editor > Wallace Thurman
If but a...
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If but a few live coals are found in a mountain of ashes, no one should be disappointed. Genius is a rare quality in this world, and there is no reason why it should be more ubiquitous among Blacks than Whites.
Source: Negro Artists and the Negro. in The New Republic, 31 Aug 1927.
-- Wallace Thurman, (Jul 1 1902-1934), US journalist, dramatist, literary editor; His satiric portrait of the Harlem Renaissance period, Infants of the Spring, was perhaps more effective as an acerbic comment than as a novel.