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I believe, as Langston Hughes did, that satire and humor can often make dents where sawed-off billiard sticks can't.

— Ollie Harrington Why I Left America and Other Essays (1993)

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Black Renaissance can come only from Black people, by Black people, of Black people, and for Black people.

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The art of what we might call, loosely, cartoons…[has been] a source of pleasure which has remained and sustained me.

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I knew I had strong feelings about the war against fascism. But, I also had strong feelings against fighting in a racially segregated army

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I never heard of a Black child who wasn't told at some time or other, "Whatever you do don't upset the white folks!" But there was just no place in the home of the brave where a Black kid could reach full growth without upsetting the white folks.

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