Alain LeRoy Locke famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

All classes of people under social pressure are permeated with a common experience; they are emotionally welded as others cannot be. With them, even ordinary living has epic depth and lyric intensity, and this, their material handicap, is their spiritual advantage.
-- Alain LeRoy Locke

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We must never forget that the dance is the cradle of Negro music.
-- Alain LeRoy Locke

#Ballet #Never Forget #Forget
Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver.
-- Alain LeRoy Locke

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The Younger Generation comes, bringing its gifts. They are the first fruits of the Negro Renaissance. Youth speaks, and the voice of the New Negro is heard.
-- Alain LeRoy Locke

#Voice #Fruit #Firsts
Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.
-- Alain LeRoy Locke

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The younger generation is vibrant with a new psychology; the new spirit is awake in the masses . . . Each generation . . . will have its creed.
-- Alain LeRoy Locke

#Psychology #Generations #Spirit

A disciple serves the spiritual master with the sole purpose of getting instructions from him.
First birth is from your parents, but real birth, real life, begins when one accepts a bona fide spiritual master and renders service unto him. Then the path is open for going back to home, back to Godhead, to live eternally in full knowledge and full bliss and in association with the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself, Lord Krishna.
My darlings, if I can't write dark, epic music, I can't live!
I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in the front room.
I've always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it's the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia's passion to get lost in a faraway place.
The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition
When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
I hold that if the Almighty had ever made a set of men that should do all the eating and none of the work, he would have made them with mouths only and no hands, and if he had ever made another class that he intended should do all the work and none of the eating, he would have made them without mouths and with all hands.
I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them.

Alain LeRoy Locke famous quotes

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