The Third Coast Quotes

“Blustery as Chicago's weather could be, its nickname "The Windy City" actually referred to the regular cycles of boosterism and Babbittry produced by its business community.”
― Thomas Dyja, The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream

“Profound as its intellectual and artistic interactions had been, the Chicago Black Renaissance never dented the city’s consciousness the way the Harlem Renaissance created a mythic Black New York.”
― Thomas Dyja, The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream

“To Langston Hughes and W. E. B. Du Bois, Bigger Thomas was more stereotype than sociology; to White Chicago, he just inspired fear. The deepest impact of Wright’s success, though, was that he’d achieved it without the Rosenwald Fund, the NAACP, or any of the other institutional sources that usually supported black artists.”
― Thomas Dyja, The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream