But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.

I know that nothing is destructible; things merely change forms.

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

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.

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.

But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.