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The artist and the political activist are one. They are both shapers of the future reality. Both understand and manipulate the collective myths of the race. Both are warriors, priests, lovers, and destroyers.

Source: In The Black Aesthetic, by Addison Gayle, 1971.
-- Larry Neal, (Sep 5 1937-1981), US editor, poet; He edited, with Amiri Baraka, the important anthology Black Fire, 1968, during the Black Arts Movement.

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