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I do not have the time in this short talk to reiterate the long and distinguished history of black theatre—often accomplished amid adverse and hostile conditions—but I would like to take the time to mark a few high points.

There are and have always been two distinct and parallel traditions in black art: that is, art that is conceived and designed to entertain white society, and art that feeds the spirit and celebrates the life of the black American by designing its strategies for survival and prosperity.

An important part of black theatre that is often ignored but is seminal to its tradition is its  origins  on  the  slave  plantations  of  the  South.  Summoned  to  the  “big  house”  to entertain the slave owner and his guests, the slave that reached its pinnacle for whites consisted of whatever the slave imagined or knew that his master wanted to see and hear. This tradition has its present life counterpart in the crossover artists that slant their material for white consumption.

This second tradition occurred when the African in the confines of the slave quarters sought to invest his spirit with the strength of his ancestors by conceiving in his art, in his song and dance, a world in which he was the spiritual center and his existence was a manifest act of the creator from whom life flowed. He then could create art that was functional and furnished him with a spiritual temperament necessary for his survival as property and the dehumanizing status that was attendant to that.

I stand myself and my  art squarely  on  the self-defining  ground of the  slave quarters and find the ground to be hallowed and made fertile by  the blood and bones of the men  and  woman  who  can  be  described  as  warriors  on  the  cultural  battlefield  that affirmed their self-worth. As there is no  idea that cannot be contained by black life, these  men  and  women found  themselves  to  be  sufficient  and  secure  in  their  art  and their instruction.

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