Even the 'Negro' shows like 'Amos and Andy' and 'Beulah' are written largely by white writers - the better to preserve the stereotypes, I imagine.

My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives . . . Censorship for us begins at the color line.

Without going outside his race, and even among the better classes with their 'white' culture and conscious American manners, but still Negro enough to be different, there is sufficient matter to furnish a black artist with a lifetime of creative work.

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.