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.

A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.

Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.

If you want to feel humor too exquisite and subtle for translation, sit invisibly among a gang of Negro workers.

I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty for Beauty to set the world right.

The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.