Quotes by Harold Cruse

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“In advanced societies it is not the race politicians or the "rights" leaders who create the new ideas and the new images of life and man. That role belongs to the artists and intellectuals of each ...”
— Harold Cruse
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“Richard Wright and his Negro intellectual colleagues never realized the plain truth that no one in the United States understood the revolutionary potential of the Negro better than the Negro's whit...”
— Harold Cruse
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“The path to the ethnic democratization of American society is through its culture, that is to say through its cultural apparatus, which comprises the eyes, the ears, and the "mind" of capitalism an...”
— Harold Cruse, The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Historical Analysis of the Failure of Black Leadership
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“In America, the materio-economic conditions relate to a societal, multi-group existence in a way never before know in world history. American Negro nationalism can never create its own values, find...”
— Harold Cruse, The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Historical Analysis of the Failure of Black Leadership
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