Through My Music Teaching And My Not

The Colored People Of This Country Know And Understand The White People Better Than The White People Know And Understand Them.

A People May Become Great Through Many Means, But There Is Only One Measure By Which Its Greatness Is Recognized And Acknowledged. The Final Measure Of The Greatness Of All Peoples Is The Amount And Standard Of The Literature And Art They Have Produced.... No People That Has Produced Great Literature And Art Has Ever Been Looked Upon By The World As Distinctly Inferior.

In The Life Of Everyone There Is A Limited Number Of Experiences Which Are Not Written Upon The Memory, But Stamped There With A Die; And In The Long Years After, They Can Be Called Up In Detail, And Every Emotion That Was Stirred By Them Can Be Lived Through Anew; These Are The Tragedies Of Life.

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.

We Have Come Over A Way That With Tears Has Been Watered, We Have Come, Treading Our Path Through The Blood Of The Slaughtered.