The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.

An American, a Negro. . . two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

Would America have been America without her Negro people?

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.

We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.