As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that.
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Some African leaders actually dare to suggest that democracy is a concept alien to traditional African society. This is one of the most impudent political blasphemies I can think of.
The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.
Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.
Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.
Democracy is a daring concept - a hope that we'll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people.
Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority.
Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.
Democracy is something that you must learn each generation. It has to be taught.
My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
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