Anna Near’s Reviews > The Souls of Black Folk > Status Update

absolutely sobbing. “of the passing of the first-born” is the most beautiful and devestating thing i’ve read in my whole life

i don’t think i’ve ever felt more dumb in my life reading this

The South ought to be led, by candid and honest criticism, to assert her better self and do her full duty to the race she has cruelly wronged and is still wronging. The North-her co-partner in guilt-cannot salve her conscience by plastering it with gold. We cannot settle this problem by diplomacy and suaveness, by "policy" alone.

“The South ought to be led, by candid and honest criticism, to assert her better self and do her full duty to the race she has cruelly wronged and is still wronging. The North-her co-partner in guilt-cannot salve her conscience by plastering it with gold. We cannot settle this problem by diplomacy and suaveness, by "policy" alone.”