To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth..

I cannot help wondering sometimes what I might have become and might have done if I had lived in a country which had not circumscribed and handicappe….

As a colored woman I might enter Washington any night, stranger in a strange land, and walk miles without finding a place to lay my head.

And so, lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go, struggling and striving, and hoping that the buds and blossoms of our desires will burst into g….

Stop using the word 'Negro.' The word is a misnomer from every point of view. It does not represent a country or anything else ... I am an African-Am….

... some people cannot bear the truth, no matter how tactfully it is told. No doubt the haughty, the tyrannical, the unmerciful, the impure and the f….

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 o….

A white woman has only one handicap to overcome - that of sex. I have two - both sex and race. ... Colored men have only one - that of race. Colored ….

Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear..

No one color can describe the various and varied complexions in our group. They range from the deep black to the fairest white with all the colors of….

While most girls run away from home to marry, I ran away to teach..

It is only through the home that a people can become really good and truly great..

The elective franchise is withheld from one half of its citizens...because the word 'people,' by an unparalleled exhibition of lexicon graphical acro….

Nobody wants to know a colored woman's opinion about her own status of that of her group. When she dares express it, no matter how mild or tactful it….

Please stop using the word "Negro."... We are the only human beings in the world with fifty-seven variety of complexions who are classed together as ….

... no young colored person in the United States today can truthfully offer as an excuse for lack of ambition or aspiration that members of his race ….

And so, lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go, struggling and striving, and hoping that the buds and blossoms of our desires will burst into g….