It was not my aim to paint about the Negro in America in terms of propaganda. It is to depict the life of my people as I know it, passionately and dispassionately as Brueghel.
Romare Bearden (1991). “Romare Bearden: The Human Condition : [exhibition] October 3-October 26, 1991”
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