The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, -- the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.

I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways.

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

There may often be excuse for doing things poorly in this world, but there is never any excuse for calling a poorly done thing, well done.

Ignorance is a cure for nothing.

We cannot hope, then, in this generation, or for several generations, that the mass of the whites can be brought to assume that close sympathetic and self-sacrificing leadership of the blacks which their present situation so eloquently demands. Such leadership, such social teaching and example, must come from the blacks themselves.