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Who works with his mind rules. Who works with his hands is ruled.
Confucius

The group is a jelous master. It demands its brand of participation, and the better integrated with it you become, the less free you feel....The group is a tyrrant, and so is it a friend, it is _both at once._ The two qualities cannot easily be separated, for what gives the group its power over the man is the same cohesion that gives it its warmth. This is the duality that confuses coercion and co-option.

The American, the Negro, two opposed strivings in one dark body.

The history of the American negro is the history of this strife, to merge his duality into a better whole.

He would not africanize America, for America has too much to teach the world. Neither would he bleach his skin, for he knows his negro blood has a message for the world.

He only wishes to be a proud negro and American without being cursed upon.