As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs.

Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend.

Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways.

Every race and every nation should be judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst.

I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race.

And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books.

We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.