al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #1035
first posted in facebook december 17, 2021
kathleen blackshear -- "a portrait of robert gould" (1932)
"chicago’s most sympathetic, most understanding painter of the american negro" ... c.j. bulliet (regarding kathleen blackshear)
"no, there is plenty wrong with negroes. they have no society. they’re robots, automatons. no minds of their own. i hate to say that about us, but it’s the truth. they are a black body with a white brain" ... malcolm x
"our too-young and too-new america, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and bad, the holy and the evil, the high and the low, the white and the black; our america is frightened of fact, of history, of processes, of necessity. it hugs the easy way of damning those whom it cannot understand, of excluding those who look different, and it salves its conscience with a self-draped cloak of righteousness" ... richard wright
"i did not leave chicago to just leave chicago, but so that some day i might understand it" ... al janik
