The Emancipation Of Man Is The Emancipation

A Man Does Not Look Behind The Door Unless He Has Stood There Himself

The Negro Cannot Stand The Present Reactionary Tendencies And Unreasoning Drawing Of The Color Line Indefinitely Without Discouragement And Retrogression. And The Condition Of The Negro Is Ever The Cause For Further Discrimination.

Histories Of The World Omitted China; If A Chinaman Invented Compass Or Movable Type Or Gunpowder We Promptly "forgot It" And Named Their European Inventors. In Short, We Regarded China As A Sort Of Different And Quite Inconsequential Planet.

Among Negroes Of My Generation There Was Not Only Little Direct Acquaintance Or Consciously Inherited Knowledge Of Africa, But Much Distaste And Recoil Because Of What The White World Taught Them About The Dark Continent. There Arose Resentment That A Group Like Ours, Born And Bred In The United States For Centuries, Should Be Regarded As Africans At All. They Were, As Most Of Them Began Gradually To Assert, Americans. My Father's Father Was Particularly Bitter About This. He Would Not Accept An Invitation To A 'negro' Picnic. He Would Not Segregate Himself In Any Way.

All Womanhood Is Hampered Today Because The World On Which It Is Emerging Is A World That Tries To Worship Both Virgins And Mothers And In The End Despises Motherhood And Despoils Virgins.