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[w]e Have Always Resented The Natural Inclination Of Most White People To Demand Spirituals The Moment It Is Known That A Negro Is About To Sing. So Often The Request Has Seemed To Savor Of The Feeling That We Could Do This And This Alone.

We Were Not Made To Eternally Weep.

There Is No Secret To Success Except Hard Work And Getting Something Indefinable Which We Call 'the Breaks.

The Night Whose Sable Breast Relieves The Stark, White Stars, Is No Less Lovely Being Dark

Lord, Forgive Me If My Need Sometimes Shapes A Human Creed.