A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
But what of black women? . . . I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.
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