Today I Believe In The Possibility Of

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.

One Avoids Creolisms. Some Families Completely Forbid Creole And Mothers Ridicule Their Children For Speaking It.

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

For The Black Man There Is Only One Destiny. And It Is White.

To Speak A Language Is To Take On A World, A Culture.