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

As Negro voting increased, Congress got an improved sense of hearing.

The main thing is the YOU beneath the clothes and skin--the ability to do, the will to conquer, the determination to understand and know this great, wonderful, curious world.

The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land. Whatever of good may have come in these years of change, the shadow of a deep disappointment rests upon the Negro people,—a disappointment all the more bitter because the unattained ideal was unbounded save by the simple ignorance of a lowly people.

When in this world a man comes forward with a thought, a deed, a vision, we ask not how does he look, but what is his message?. . . The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty. . . .

For education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent.

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