It is African scholars themselves who will create the ultimate Encyclopaedia Africana.

One ever feels his twoness-an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, -- this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost... He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American...

If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.

Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.

What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!