Please, oh please, ban my art. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad.

Please, oh please, ban my art. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad.
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On March 19, 1987, I told a class on Creative Writing at Morehouse College:

As a writer. if you cannot create a white persona who is more credible than one created by a white person who is not a writer, keep your day job.

Shakespeare was not a Jew. James Baldwin was not a redneck. In Blues for Mister Charlie Lyle Britten is never as stereotypical as Shylock saying, "My daughter, oh my ducats, oh my daughter! "

Ralph Ellison gave high marks to William Faulkner for creating black characters who are more credible than some black writers are able to create.

Unlike propaganda, good art aspires to truth, not to correctness.

The best response to bad speech, or bad art, or bad literature is not censorship but better speech, better art, better literature — or silence.

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