O My Body, Make Of Me Always

I Am Black: I Am The Incarnation Of A Complete Fusion With The World, An Intuitive Understanding Of The Earth, An Abandonment Of My Ego In The Heart Of The Cosmos, And No White Man, No Matter How Intelligent He May Be, Can Ever Understand Louis Armstrong And The Music Of The Congo.

Certain Things Need To Be Said If One Is To Avoid Falsifying The Problem.

The Church In The Colonies Is The White People's Church, The Foreigner's Church. She Does Not Call The Native To God's Ways But To The Ways Of The White Man, Of The Master, Of The Oppressor.

To Educate The Masses Politically Does Not Mean, Cannot Mean, Making A Political Speech. What It Means Is To Try, Relentlessly And Passionately, To Teach The Masses That Everything Depends On Them; That If We Stagnate It Is Their Responsibility, And That If We Go Forward It Is Due To Them Too, That There Is No Such Thing As A Demiurge, That There Is No Famous Man Who Will Take The Responsibility For Everything, But That The Demiurge Is The People Themselves And The Magic Hands Are Finally Only The Hands Of The People.

Negrophobes Exist. It Is Not Hatred Of The Negro, However, That Motivates Them; They Lack The Courage For That, Or They Have Lost It. Hate Is Not Inborn; It Has To Be Constantly Cultivated, To Be Brought Into Being, In Conflict With More Or Less Recognized Guilt Complexes. Hate Demands Existence And He Who Hates Has To Show His Hate In Appropriate Actions And Behavior; In A Sense, He Has To Become Hate. That Is Why Americans Have Substituted Discrimination For Lynching. Each To His Own Side Of The Street.