“I was right there in the middle of all of this action. I didn’t have to think up gags…The cartoons drew themselves…I was more surprised than anyone when Brother Bootsie became a Harlem household celebrity, not only among the colored proletariat be among the literati as well.” HarlemCartoonsHarlem RenaissancePolitical CartoonsPolitical Cartoonists Book:Why I Left America and Other Essays Source: Why I Left America and Other Essays
“To really dig Brother Bootsie, his trials and tribulations, you’d have to see Harlem from the sidewalk. Everyone in Harlem had trials and tribulations because everyone was colored. Or almost everyone…But being colored, even in an enlightened northern burg like New York, could be a drag.” RacismHarlem RenaissancePolitical CartoonsPolitical Cartoonists Book:Why I Left America and Other Essays Source: Why I Left America and Other Essays