W.E.B. Du Bois: “In other periods of intensified prejudice all the Negro’s tendency to self-assertion has been called forth; at this…”

This, then, is the end of his striving: to be a co-worker in the kingdom of culture, to escape both death and isolation, to husband and use his best powers and his latent genius.

And yet, being a problem is a strange experience,—peculiar even for one who has never been anything else, save perhaps in babyhood and in Europe.

Yet even then the hard ruthless rape of the land began to tell.

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.