Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change – it can not only move us, it makes us move.
Georgia-native Ossie Davis (December 18, 1917 – February 4, 2005) was an African-American film, television and Broadway actor, a playwright, screenwriter, and novelist, and a civil rights activist. His works include the play Purlie Victorious (1961), and its musical adaptation Purlie (1970), about a Southern black preacher hoping to save his small community church, outwit a white plantation owner and free the cotton pickers working there.
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