W.E.B. Du Bois: “I seek the universal mistress, Art; the studio door is locked.”

Whatever of good may have come in these years of change, the shadow of a deep disappointment rests upon the Negro people,—a disappointment all the more bitter because the unattained ideal was unbounded save by the simple ignorance of a…

The direct result of this system is an all-cotton scheme of agriculture and the continued bankruptcy of the tenant.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

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