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You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun.

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Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.

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There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.

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The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition.

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Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys' choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano voice. I enjoyed the singing very much.

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I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race.

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I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.

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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

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When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make.

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Washington shows the Negro not only at his best, but also at his worst.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: June 17th, 1871

Died: June 26th, 1938

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