ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the responsibility and power of art. Eleven-year-old students in New York said as much when asked by him to define death during a class sponsored by the educational division of the Urban League. Several of them said that 'death is the inability to express yourself. At a time when heightened sacrificial instincts threaten to annihilate Oseye Ebele and Southerland Ellease, when the carnage is served as a daily diet in formal and informal fiction, it is more than wonderful, in contrast, to celebrate the Heritage Series which gave voice and encouragement to aspiring African artists. To learn the symbols of day dreams and night dreams: to be renewed, to truly re-create in the tradition of the ancient people of Kemet who praised the sun as giving birth to itself every day, without ceasing. True art sustains life. It can transcend politics which disconnect us from life's many mysteries and beauty.
