W.E.B. Du Bois: “It has been left, however, to Europe and to modern days to discover the eternal world-wide mark of meanness,--color!”

He would not bleach his Negro soul in a flood of white Americanism, for he knows that Negro blood has a message for the world.

Away back in the days of bondage they thought to see in one divine event the end of all doubt and disappointment; few men ever worshipped Freedom with half such unquestioning faith as did the American Negro for two centuries.

All this segregation by color is largely independent of that natural clustering by social grades common to all communities.

Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it.