“In America, the materio-economic conditions relate to a societal, multi-group existence in a way never before know in world history. American Negro nationalism can never create its own values, find its revolutionary significance, define its political and economic goals, until Negro intellectuals take up the cudgels against the cultural imperialism practiced in all of its manifold ramifications on the Negro within American culture. But this kind of revolution would have to be predicated on the recognition that the cultural and artistic originality of the American nation is founded, historically, on the ingredients of a black aesthetic and artistic base.” DemocracyIndependenceNationalismAmerican CultureBlack NationalismBlack AmericansCultural NationalismAmerican NationalismCultural DemocracyCultural IndependenceCultural Pluralism Book:The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Historical Analysis of the Failure of Black Leadership Source: The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Historical Analysis of the Failure of Black Leadership
“Privately, we cannot stand our lives and dare not examine them; domestically, we take no responsibility for (and no pride in) what goes on in our country; and internationally, for millions of people, we are an unmitigated disaster.” AmericaAmerican DreamAmerican LiteratureAmerican Nationalism Book:The Fire Next Time Source: The Fire Next Time