Black and White and Orange - The Monday Morning Memo

1928 lithograph by Mabel Dwight
(1876-1955,) signed and dated in pencil. One of an edition of sixty. 10″ x 10 3/4″ The opening bid was $150. It sold on March 21, 2010, for $3,600.

“I talked with white Communists about my experiences with black communists, and I could not make them understand what I was talking about. White Communists had idealized all Negroes to the extent that they did not see the same Negroes I saw. And the more I tried to explain my ideas the more they, too, began to suspect that I was somehow dreadfully wrong. Words lost their usual meanings. Simple motives took on sinister colors. Attitudes underwent quick and startling transformations. Ideas turned into their opposites while you were talking to a person you thought you knew. I began to feel an emotional isolation that I had not known in the depths of the hate-ridden South.”

- Richard Wright, 1944, Black Boy, chapter 19

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