"The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all the privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than artificial forcing.... Being a black writer meant you needed to be good at squeezing your black perspective through a narrow space where the white outlook connected with your own....

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate