I Know Of No Rights Of Race

I Have No Accurate Knowledge Of My Age, Never Having Seen Any Authentic Record Containing It.

The White Man's Happiness Cannot Be Purchased By The Black Man's Misery.

Immense Wealth, And Its Lavish Expenditure, Fill The Great House With All That Can Please The Eye, Or Tempt The Taste. Here, Appetite, Not Food, Is The Great Desideratum.

You Degrade Us And Then Ask Why We Are Degraded. You Shut Our Mouths And Ask Why We Don't Speak. You Close Your Colleges And Seminaries Against Us And Then Ask Why We Don't Know.

The Mind Does Not Take Its Complexion From The Skin.