Art should be on the side of humanity.
This is why I find racism impossible, because this is against humanity.
Serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict.
My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don’t see how art can be called art if its purpose is to frustrate humanity. To make humanity uncomfortable, yes. But intrinsically to be against humanity, that I don’t take.
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.'