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Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.02,0:00:15.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean if you go back and read Langston Hughes' essay from 1929,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.60,0:00:19.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it was, "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.10,0:00:24.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He opens it with a question from a young poet who approaches him and says,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.65,0:00:32.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I don't wanna be a black poet, I just wanna be a poet." But what does that mean, really.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.88,0:00:38.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In his essay, he says, what that artist is really saying is "I wanna be a white artist."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.70,0:00:42.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because they are not burned by the problem of race.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.32,0:00:46.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To not be called a black artist seems to perform some kind of
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.12,0:00:48.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Liberating function in the minds of a lot of people.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.70,0:00:54.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So who needs to not know, or who needs to not think of you as a black artist
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.90,0:00:57.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in order for you to become a real artist?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.22,0:01:07.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The painting is the painting. And black painters have done all kind of work all the time,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.06,0:01:10.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it's not a question of whether they represent or whether they don't represent.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.45,0:01:13.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's the treatment of whichever of forms they engage in.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.72,0:01:19.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what determines the value of the work. Not whether you call them a black artist or not.