https://padlet.com/ccobrien28/xwdjypkuey93 Great quotes from W.E.B. Du Bois, C.L.R. James, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Wright en-us 2017-10-09 16:20:33 UTC 2025-12-17 19:42:48 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/ccobrien28/xwdjypkuey93/wish/195354426 "I do not doubt that the ultimate art coming from black folk is going to be just as beautiful, and beautiful largely in the same ways, as the art that comes from white folk, or yellow, or red; but the point today is that until the art of the black folk compells [sic] recognition they will not be rated as human."]]> 2017-10-09 18:53:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ccobrien28/xwdjypkuey93/wish/195354426 https://padlet.com/ccobrien28/xwdjypkuey93/wish/195354749 2017-10-09 18:54:08 UTC https://padlet.com/ccobrien28/xwdjypkuey93/wish/195354749 https://padlet.com/ccobrien28/xwdjypkuey93/wish/195355077 BUT I AM NOT tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not be long to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal and whose feelings are all but about it. Even in the helter?skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seer that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more of less. No, I do not weep at the world??I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.]]> 2017-10-09 18:54:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ccobrien28/xwdjypkuey93/wish/195355077 https://padlet.com/ccobrien28/xwdjypkuey93/wish/195355774 This hate will be one of the most powerful forces in the Negro revolution. In the South an iron system holds the Negroes down. But Southern whites know quite well what fires smoulder behind the deference and the humility.]]> 2017-10-09 18:57:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ccobrien28/xwdjypkuey93/wish/195355774 https://padlet.com/ccobrien28/xwdjypkuey93/wish/195355970 2017-10-09 18:57:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ccobrien28/xwdjypkuey93/wish/195355970 https://padlet.com/ccobrien28/xwdjypkuey93/wish/195356079  On one side of the square is the office of a colored lawyer and on all the other sides are men who do not like colored lawyers. A white woman goes into the black man's office and points to the white-filled square and says, "I want five hundred dollars now and if I do not get it I am going to scream." ]]> 2017-10-09 18:57:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ccobrien28/xwdjypkuey93/wish/195356079 https://padlet.com/ccobrien28/xwdjypkuey93/wish/195357675 "Of what is the colored artist capable? We have had on the part of both colored and white people singular unanimity of judgment in the past. Colored people have said: "This work must be inferior because it comes from colored people." White people have said: "It is inferior because it is done by colored people." But today there is coming to both the realization that the work of the black man is not always inferior." -W.E.B Du bois
Shaquela Brown ]]> 2017-10-09 19:02:50 UTC https://padlet.com/ccobrien28/xwdjypkuey93/wish/195357675 https://padlet.com/ccobrien28/xwdjypkuey93/wish/195358305 the world is full of it; and yet today the mass of human beings are choked away from it, and their lives distorted and made ugly.]]> 2017-10-09 19:04:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ccobrien28/xwdjypkuey93/wish/195358305 https://padlet.com/ccobrien28/xwdjypkuey93/wish/195399933 But as you go through the valleys and over the foothills, so long as you are climbing, the direction--north, south, east or west--is of less importance.  
Billy Steadman]]> 2017-10-09 22:43:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ccobrien28/xwdjypkuey93/wish/195399933 https://padlet.com/ccobrien28/xwdjypkuey93/wish/196187163 Such is Beauty. Its variety is infinite, its possibility is endless.
Réi Haywood 

]]> 2017-10-11 19:02:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ccobrien28/xwdjypkuey93/wish/196187163 https://padlet.com/ccobrien28/xwdjypkuey93/wish/196187623 "It represents the generations' experience of injustice, of humiliation, of suppressed resentment and bitterness. But if negros hate whites, they also fear them, their knowledge, their power, their ruthlessness -- also the accumulated experience of the generations.

~Rebecca Washington]]> 2017-10-11 19:03:52 UTC https://padlet.com/ccobrien28/xwdjypkuey93/wish/196187623 https://padlet.com/ccobrien28/xwdjypkuey93/wish/196187840 But I will say that there are today a surprising number if white peiolw who are getting great satisfaction out of these younger Negro writers because they think it is going to stop agitation of the Negro question.]]> 2017-10-11 19:04:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ccobrien28/xwdjypkuey93/wish/196187840 https://padlet.com/ccobrien28/xwdjypkuey93/wish/196187893 "And it is right here that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People comes upon the field, comes with its great call to a new battle, a new fight and new things to fight before the old things are wholly won" - Lauren H.]]> 2017-10-11 19:04:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ccobrien28/xwdjypkuey93/wish/196187893 https://padlet.com/ccobrien28/xwdjypkuey93/wish/196188022 Free he is but his freedom is ever bounded by Truth and Justice;
Jaynese jones]]> 2017-10-11 19:04:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ccobrien28/xwdjypkuey93/wish/196188022 https://padlet.com/ccobrien28/xwdjypkuey93/wish/196188429  “But race is the child of racism, not the father. And the process of naming “the people” has never been a matter of genealogy and physiognomy so much as one of hierarchy. Difference in hue and hair is old. But the belief in the preeminence of hue and hair, the notion that these factors can correctly organize a society and that they signify deeper attributes, which are indelible—this is the new idea at the heart of these new people who have been brought up hopelessly, tragically, deceitfully, to believe that they are white.” 
-Patricia Rutto]]> 2017-10-11 19:05:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ccobrien28/xwdjypkuey93/wish/196188429 https://padlet.com/ccobrien28/xwdjypkuey93/wish/196189945 If you tonight suddenly should become full-fledged Americans; if your color faded, or the color line here in Chicago was miraculously forgotten; suppose, too, you became at the same time rich and powerful; -- what is it that you would want? What would you immediately seek? Would you buy the most powerful of motor cars and outrace Cook County? 

-Otis Thompson Jr.]]> 2017-10-11 19:09:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ccobrien28/xwdjypkuey93/wish/196189945 https://padlet.com/ccobrien28/xwdjypkuey93/wish/196192083 I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty and for Beauty to set the world right. That somehow, somewhere eternal and perfect Beauty sits above Truth and Right I can conceive, but here and now and in the world in which I work they are for me unseparated and inseparable.  -Eboni]]> 2017-10-11 19:14:40 UTC https://padlet.com/ccobrien28/xwdjypkuey93/wish/196192083 https://padlet.com/ccobrien28/xwdjypkuey93/wish/196229913 “But race is the child of racism, not the father.”

-Kyntara Blair

]]> 2017-10-11 21:38:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ccobrien28/xwdjypkuey93/wish/196229913 https://padlet.com/ccobrien28/xwdjypkuey93/wish/197117157 "You and I have been breasting hills; we have been climbing upward; there has been progress and we can see it day by day looking back along blood-filled paths"  
-Avery Allen 


]]> 2017-10-15 14:27:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ccobrien28/xwdjypkuey93/wish/197117157 https://padlet.com/ccobrien28/xwdjypkuey93/wish/197880655 -Tierra Bratton]]> 2017-10-17 16:12:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ccobrien28/xwdjypkuey93/wish/197880655 https://padlet.com/ccobrien28/xwdjypkuey93/wish/198018440 "Quite often the hate is hidden, sometimes it is buried deep out of sight, sometimes it is twisted into its opposite, a passionate religiosity."

Taty'ana Green]]> 2017-10-17 20:32:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ccobrien28/xwdjypkuey93/wish/198018440 https://padlet.com/ccobrien28/xwdjypkuey93/wish/198061111 “Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register with me. Slavery is sixty years in the past. The operation was successful and the patient is doing well, thank you. The terrible struggle that made an American out of a potential slave said ‘On the line!’ The Reconstruction said ‘Get Set!’; and the generation before said ‘Go!’ I am off to a flying start and I must not halt in the stretch to look behind and weep.”]]> 2017-10-18 00:38:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ccobrien28/xwdjypkuey93/wish/198061111 https://padlet.com/ccobrien28/xwdjypkuey93/wish/246227316 I do not always feel colored. Even now I often achieve the unconscious Zora of Eatonville before the Hegira. I feel most colored when  am thrown against a sharp white background.

Chrissy Sanders]]> 2018-03-26 18:10:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ccobrien28/xwdjypkuey93/wish/246227316