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!

I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

To avoid the consequences of posterity the mulattos give the blacks a first class letting alone. There is a frantic stampede white-ward to escape from Jamaica's black mass.

It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.

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

It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.