W.E.B. Du Bois: “It must include, not simply white men, but educated and trained men of Negro blood.”

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.

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

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.

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