Stephens African American Museum

10/12/2010

Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home. Gwendolyn Brooks

09/07/2010

"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence."
Frederick Douglass

08/16/2010

The Stephens African-American Museum was opened in 1994 as a community service project of the Spencer Ray Stephens Foundation, Inc. It is a living museum dedicated to the preservation of African-American history, artifacts and documents. The museum houses one of the best collections of paintings, sculptures, drawings, and photographs of African-American Art in the state.

07/26/2010

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me. Zora Neale Hurston

07/19/2010

One thing alone I charge you. As you live, believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life. The only possible death is to lose belief in this truth simply because the great end comes slowly, because time is long. W.E.B. Dubois

07/14/2010