So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.

But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate.

Magic is older than writing. So nobody knows how it started.

Everybody is two beings: one lives and flourishes in the daylight and stands guard. The other being walks and howls at night.

I maintain that I have been a Negro three times--a Negro baby, a Negro girl and a Negro woman. Still, if you have received no clear cut impression of what the Negro in America is like, then you are in the same place with me. There is no The Negro here. Our lives are so diversified, internal attitudes so varied, appearances and capabilities so different, that there is no possible classification so catholic that it will cover us all, except My people! My people!

So in Jamaica it is the aim of everybody to talk English, act English and look English. And that last specification is where the greatest difficulties arise. It is not so difficult to put a coat of European culture over African culture, but it is next to impossible to lay a European face over an African face in the same generation.

It was the meanest moment of eternity.