All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and in the end despises motherhood and despoils virgins.

Whiteness is ownership of the earth.

Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.

The kind of sermon which is preached in most colored churches is not today attractive to even fairly intelligent men.

Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house? The shades of the prison-house closed round about us all: walls strait and stubborn to the whitest, but relentlessly narrow, tall, and unscalable to sons of night who must plod darkly on in resignation, or beat unavailing palms against the stone, or steadily, half hopelessly, watch the streak of blue above.

Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?