Roy Adzak's Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl

The artist, Roy Adzak, once said, “Good art is not what it looks like, but what it does to us.” In this quote, Roy Adzak is saying that art that is good, is not supposed to look good, but it's supposed to make you make you feel something. There have been many pieces of literature where the author has created a poem or book about something meaningful to them and it made you want to do something about it, it made feel like you had to do something. Sometimes people put out artwork or literature into the world and it gets used for political purposes, but that wasn’t their intentions. African-American people have been fighting for equality, and art along with many other things has played a big role in it. Three examples are a poem by Phillis Wheatley, a book by Harriet Ann Jacobs, and a dong …show more content…
In the book, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs, she clearly states that she doesn't want fame or forgiveness, but action,

“I have not written my experiences in order to attract attention to myself; on the contrary, it would have been more pleasant to me to have been silent about my history. Neither do I care sympathy for my own sufferings. But I do earnestly desire to arouse woman of the North to a realizing sense of the condition of two millions of woman at the South, still in bondage, suffering what I suffered, and most far worst.”

In this quote, she is saying that she doesn’t want to become famous, she doesn’t want people to give her stuff because of this experience. She would have rathered stayed quiet, but instead, she wants to show us how bad slavery is and is writing this to make people stop slavery. Her focus is rich, white woman who is not really sure if slavery is bad or not. She wants them to help the people in the south, who are still slaves and are suffering a lot more than she