I cannot help wondering sometimes what I might have become and might have done if I had lived in a country which had not circumscr...ibed and handicapped me on account of my race, but had allowed me to reach any height I was able to attain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to ...bear.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... no young colored person in the United States today can truthfully offer as an excuse for lack of ambition or aspiration that m...embers of his race have accomplished so little, he is discouraged from attempting anything himself. For there is scarcely a field of human endeavor which colored people have been allowed to enter in which there is not at least one worthy representative.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Please stop using the word "Negro."... We are the only human beings in the world with fifty-seven variety of complexions who are c...lassed together as a single racial unit. Therefore, we are really truly colored people, and that is the only name in the English language which accurately describes us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As a colored woman I might enter Washington any night, a stranger in a strange land, and walk miles without finding a place to lay... my head.... The colored man alone is thrust out of the hotels of the national capital like a leper.... Surely nowhere in the world do oppression and persecution based solely on the color of the skin appear more hateful and hideous than in the capital of the United States, because the chasm between the principles upon which this Government was founded, in which it still professes to believe, and those which are daily practiced under the protection of the flag, yawn so wide and deep.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »