‘With lies & nylon stockings’, ‘Black Arts’ page, Jan 28th – 11th Feb 1970, p. 10-11.

[Photos by Horace Ové. Article includes offensive cartoon imagery]

‘Leroi Jones is the leader of the Black arts movement in Black America. His primary need is for contact, direct contact, with his audience, which gives rise to his violent language. He has broken absolutely with theatrical tradition that produced such white craftsmen as Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Albee…even Burroughs and Ginsberg who are really not in the least revolutionary by nature of their passivity, their uncommittment to change. He is far removed from the world of James Baldwin, with his claims to being an individual unconnected with the Black collective, as he is from folklore and from Green Pastures which put their mark on traditional Black Theatre. His play, Phantom Underground, has been decried by critics, the whites, as provocative & a cry of hatred: but, as Leroi would say, try and build a new world with lies and nylon stockings!’.