"The first [proposition] is that the poets, by which I mean all artists, are finally the only people who know the truth about us. Soldiers don't. Statesmen don't. Priests don't. Union leaders don't.

Stefan Bohacek@stefanbohacek.online to Art@fedia.io · 4 days ago

“The first [proposition] is that the poets, by which I mean all artists, are finally the only people who know the truth about us. Soldiers don’t. Statesmen don’t. Priests don’t. Union leaders don’t. Only the poets.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGwPv7rm3l4

via @raganwald@social.bau-ha.us

#artists #poets #art #JamesBaldwin

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