Which quotation from an essay by Wallace Thurman in Fire!! would most… | Verbal SAT Question

In 1926, young African American writers and artists, including Wallace Thurman, Zora Neale Hurston, and Langston Hughes, published the single issue of the avant-garde literary journal Fire!!. Literary historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. argues that the journal represented an intentional rebellion against the older generation of Harlem Renaissance leaders (such as W.E.B. Du Bois and Alain Locke), who advocated that Black art should primarily serve as respectable propaganda to demonstrate civic merit to white society.

Which quotation from an essay by Wallace Thurman in Fire!! would most directly illustrate the literary historian’s argument?

“The Negro artist must remember that every brushstroke and every line is judged not only by critics but by the race he represents.”

“We do not wish to be exhibits in anyone’s case for racial advancement; we would rather write freely and be damned than write respectably for approval.”

“The greatest service a young writer can render is to produce work that reassures the broader public of our dignity and progress.”

“Art that fails to instruct the masses in proper conduct has failed in its highest duty.”