Negro Life in the South: Present Conditions and NeedsAssociation Press, 1911 - 181 páginas |
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Página 58 - WE wear the mask that grins and lies, It 'hides our cheeks and shades our eyes, — This debt we pay to human guile ; With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, And mouth with myriad subtleties. Why should the world be overwise, In counting all our tears and sighs? Nay, let them only see us, while We wear the mask.
Página 148 - If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me, what then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? Did not he that made me in the womb, make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
Página 108 - I cannot find a half dozen cases of a man or woman who has completed a full course of education in any of our reputable institutions like Hampton, Tuskegee, Fisk or Atlanta who are in prisons. The records of the South show that 90 per cent. of the colored people in prisons are without knowledge of trades, and 61 per cent. are illiterate.
Página 146 - And shoutest thy loud battle-cry ; Higher than e'er the tempest roared, It cleaves the silence like a sword. Right arms and armors, too, that man Who will not compromise with wrong; Though single, he must front the throng. And wage the battle hard and long. Minorities, since time began, Have shown, the better side of man ; And often in the lists of Time One man has made a cause sublime...
Página 63 - All over the face of the land is the one-room cabin,— now standing in the shadow of the Big House, now staring at the dusty road, now rising dark and sombre amid the green of the cottonfields. It is nearly always old and bare, built of rough boards, and neither plastered nor ceiled. Light and ventilation are supplied by the single door and by the square hole in the wall with its wooden shutter. There is no glass, porch, or ornamentation without Within is a fireplace, black and smoky, and usually...
Página 26 - SLOW THROUGH THE DARK. SLOW moves the pageant of a climbing race ; Their footsteps drag far, far below the height, And, unprevailing by their utmost might, Seem faltering downward from each hard won place. No strange, swift-sprung exception we; we trace A devious way thro...
Página 125 - A sort of suppressed terror hung in the air and seemed to seize us— a pythian madness, a demoniac possession, that lent terrible reality to song and word. The black and massive form of the preacher swayed and quivered as the words crowded to his lips and flew at us in singular eloquence. The people moaned and fluttered, and then the...
Página 118 - God, after having made the world and filled it with inhabitants, retired to some remote part of the universe, and has allowed the affairs of the world to come under the control of evil spirits; and hence the only religious worship that is ever performed is directed to these spirits, the object of which is to court their favour, or ward off the evil effects of their displeasure.
Página 111 - These places are given over to the ignorant and depraved. It is not the educated Negro that makes up our idle and vagrant class, that commits our murders, and despoils our women. Here again it is the illiterate and degraded Negro. The trained Negro lives in a better home, wears better clothes, eats better food, does more efficient work, creates more wealth, rears his children more decently, makes a more decent citizen, and in times of race friction is always to be found on the side of law and order.
Página 2 - Gone ! Not one o' dem is lef to tell de story ; Dey have lef de deah ole place to fall away. Couldn't one o' dem dat seed it in its glory Stay to watch it in de hour of decay? Dey have lef de ole plantation to de swallers, But it hoi's in me a lover till de las' ; Fu' I fin' hyeah in de memory dat toilers All dat loved me an