For I Am My Mother's Daughter, And

From The First, I Made My Learning, What Little It Was, Useful Every Way I Could.

We Live In A World Which Respects Power Above All Things. Power, Intelligently Directed, Can Lead To More Freedom. Unwisely Directed, It Can Be A Dreadful, Destructive Force.

I Thought, Maybe The Difference Between White Folks And Colored Is Just This Matter Of Reading And Writing. I Made Up My Mind I Would Know My Letters.

When They Learn Of Shakespeare And Goethe, We Must Teach Them Of Pushkin And Dumas. . . . Whatever The White Man Has Done, We Have Done, And Often Better.

In Each Experience Of My Life, I Have Had To Step Out Of One Little Space Of The Known Light, Into A Large Area Of Darkness. I Had To Stand Awhile In The Darkness, And Then Gradually God Has Given Me Light. But Not To Linger In. For As Soon As That Light Has Felt Familiar, Then The Call Has Always Come To Step Out Ahead Again Into New Darkness.