In all the ten years that I have appeared and helped to produce a great many plays of a musical nature there has never been even the remotest suspicion of a love story in any of them.
During the same ten years I do not think there has ever been a single white company which has produced any kind of a musical play in which a love story was not the central notion.
Now why is this? It is not an accident or because we do not want to put on plays as beautiful and artistic in every way as do white actors, but because there is a popular prejudice against love scenes enacted by Negroes.
—Aida Overton Walker in the Indianapolis Freeman, Oct. 6, 1906