W.E.B. Du Bois: “And this is the real reason why strife, war, and revolution have marked the onward march of humanity instead of reason…”

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

I had thereafter no desire to tear down that veil, to creep through; I held all beyond it in common contempt, and lived above it in a region of blue sky and great wandering shadows.

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

Through history, the powers of single black men flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness.