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Only the BLACK WOMAN can say “when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole Negro race enters with me.”
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Only the BLACK WOMAN can say “when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole Negro race enters with me.”
Let us then, here and now, recognize this force and resolve to make the most of it—not the boys less, but the girls more.
Nay, ’tis woman’s strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.