- Propaganda, however legitimate, can speak no louder than the truth.
- Dialect or the speech of the people is capable of expressing whatever the people are.
- [T]he sincere, sensitive artist, willing to go beneath the cliches of popular belief to get at an underlying reality, will be wary of confining a race's entire characters to a half-dozen narrow grooves.
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