The Younger Generation comes, bringing its gifts. They are the first fruits of the Negro Renaissance. Youth speaks, and the voice of the New Negro is…

- Alain Leroy Locke

The younger generation is vibrant with a new psychology; the new spirit is awake in the masses . . . Each generation . . . will have its creed.

- Alain Leroy Locke

We must never forget that the dance is the cradle of Negro music.

- Alain Leroy Locke

Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art …

- Alain Leroy Locke

Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.

- Alain Leroy Locke

All classes of people under social pressure are permeated with a common experience; they are emotionally welded as others cannot be. With them, even …

- Alain Leroy Locke