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.

All art is propaganda...I do not care a damn, for any art that is not used for propaganda.

Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. How does it feel to be a problem?

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.

To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.

I believe that there are human stocks with whom it is physically unwise to intermarry, but to think that these stocks are all colored or that there are no such white stocks is unscientific and false.

If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.