Black Panther Party of Northern California - Freedom Archives

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Le', me as.k you,, do ypu set''any sort
of plash between yQuk pasi'ciori as an
a~.visvt;, : .,.,wha:ch is ` i;o .:some extent, ;;a
co~:~emplative position, ` and. your Punc,- . .,
tio~:, s'ay, ~,s a pc~lit~ cal acti~is r:~?;
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' ,3~:ow° again,, T think that ,the definit
on of ~"artist," has to be redefined .
in terms .of the 'needs of back people .
We &must make - n~eta definitions : . As you
say, eonteznplatztre I don't agree
w '~h that . . ~,o~plete7_y because we hau~e , .
~o ' : be contemplative becaus . e~, that`' 'is `,~~
`that makes the: totality - ' o~,our vision ;;
1?ut also we ':':have .to be activist be-
'"~~`cause of .the needs of our people . And
unless our art is absolu~t~ly in ~~urie,
yot`z see, with the needs o_~' our people, .
then we ; ar.~ ., ,, . creating i'or Euz~opeans',, `
aid n~~ for qur own._ peopleur? Mao Tse-_
tui~;~ is an~ artis.t . fatrice Lumumba
was an artist, .,and I o Ch Mir~Yi, : :and
as far back 'as .~ . Antar, the Ar~~ ;° . . . .L .i:
has to `-be ' ~. , totality . I t7~~ ~k w'e
has~e-~ 'to ,~r~ncer~ ' ourselves with being
men: ~ ` ` And, x,11 the other things mus t
pay tixeir part, in reaching `the Iotal
ty of our manhood, I chink .
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