Whiteness Is Ownership Of The

The Return From Your Work Must Be The Satisfaction Which That Work Brings You And The World's Need Of That Work. With This, Life Is Heaven, Or As Near Heaven As You Can Get. Without This - With Work Which You Despise, Which Bores You, And Which The World Does Not Need - This Life Is Hell.

Between Me And The Other World There Is Ever An Unasked Question: Unasked By Some Through Feelings Of Delicacy; By Others Through The Difficulty Of Rightly Framing It. All, Nevertheless, Flutter Round It. How Does It Feel To Be A Problem?

In The Treatment Of The Child The World Foreshadows Its Own Future And Faith. All Words And All Thinking Lead To The Child, - To That Vast Immortality And Wide Sweep Of Infinite Possibility Which The Child Represents.

I Sit With Shakespeare And He Winces Not.

The Nation Has Not Yet Found Peace From Its Sins; The Freedman Has Not Yet Found In Freedom His Promised Land. 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 Lowly People.