I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without.

It these broken utterances can in any way help to a clearer vision and a truer pulse-beat in studying the Nation's Problem, this Voice by a Black Woman of the South will not have been raised in vain.

. . . women are more quiet. They don't feel called to mount a barrel and harangue by the hour every time they imagine they have produced an idea.

Teach [our girls] that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help; that the world needs and is already asking for their trained, efficient forces.

One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.

Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.