Anna Julia Cooper
African-American educator and writer (1858 to 1964); author of A Voice from the South.
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Black men cannot be expected to speak fully for Black women
At any rate, as our Caucasian barristers are not to blame if they cannot quite put themselves in the dark man’s place, neither should the dark man be wholly expected fully and adequately to reproduce the exact Voice of the Black Woman.
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Black men cannot be expected to speak fully for Black women
At any rate, as our Caucasian barristers are not to blame if they cannot quite put themselves in the dark man’s place, neither should the dark man be wholly expected fully and adequately to reproduce the exact Voice of the Black Woman.
A Voice from the South (1892) Said c. 1892
Where the Black woman enters with undisputed dignity, the whole race enters with her
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.”
A Voice from the South (1892) Said c. 1892
The black woman must be the fundamental agent of the race's progress
Now the fundamental agency under God in the regeneration, the re-training of the race, as well as the ground work and starting point of its progress upward, must be the black woman.
A Voice from the South (1892) Said c. 1892
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Truth has a feminine and a masculine side that complement rather than outrank each other
All I claim is that there is a feminine as well as a masculine side to truth; that these are related not as inferior and superior, not as better and worse, not as weaker and stronger, but as complements—complements in one necessary and symmetric whole.
A Voice from the South (1892) Said c. 1892
Men of her race seem to fall back on sixteenth-century logic on the woman question
It seems hardly a gracious thing to say, but it strikes me as true, that while our men seem thoroughly abreast of the times on almost every other subject, when they strike the woman question they drop back into sixteenth century logic.
A Voice from the South (1892) Said c. 1892
Scholarships should be founded for self-supporting young women to balance the aid given to theology students
To be plain, I mean let money be raised and scholarships be founded in our colleges and universities for self-supporting, worthy young women, to offset and balance the aid that can always be found for boys who will take theology.
A Voice from the South (1892) Said c. 1892
Women should never seem to disparage the weak, even for the sake of argument
Woman should not, even by inference, or for the sake of argument, seem to disparage what is weak.
A Voice from the South (1892) Said c. 1892
Woman's strongest claim to speak is that the world needs to hear her voice
It is not the intelligent woman vs. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman vs. the black, the brown, and the red,—it is not even the cause of woman vs. man. Nay, ’tis woman’s strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.
A Voice from the South (1892) Said c. 1892
Civility toward Black people is a different thing from forced social association
The “social equality” implied by civility to the Negro is a very different thing from forced association with him socially.
A Voice from the South (1892) Said c. 1892
The Black woman faces both a woman question and a race problem and is unacknowledged in both
She is confronted by both a woman question and a race problem, and is as yet an unknown or an unacknowledged factor in both.
A Voice from the South (1892) Said c. 1892
American politics is hardly a school for great minds
And yet politics, and surely American politics, is hardly a school for great minds.
A Voice from the South (1892) Said c. 1892
Progressive peace in a nation comes from conflict between radically different elements, including races
Progressive peace in a nation is the result of conflict; and conflict, such as is healthy, stimulating, and progressive, is produced through the co-existence of radically opposing or racially different elements.
A Voice from the South (1892) Said c. 1892
America's race problem guarantees the progress of its institutions and the breadth of its culture
We would not deprecate the fact, then, that America has a Race Problem. It is guaranty of the perpetuity and progress of her institutions, and insures the breadth of her culture and the symmetry of her development.
A Voice from the South (1892) Said c. 1892
Art written for its own sake will outlast writing done to prove a point
Now in my judgment writings of the first class will be the ones to withstand the ravages of time.
A Voice from the South (1892) Said c. 1892
A Black writer is needed to portray Black life truly, and white people from a Black standpoint
What I hope to see before I die is a black man honestly and appreciatively portraying both the Negro as he is, and the white man, occasionally, as seen from the Negro’s standpoint.
A Voice from the South (1892) Said c. 1892
The nation's debt to Black Americans is as real as its debt to its pensioners
We know that our bill is a true one—that the debt is as real as to any pensioners of our government.
A Voice from the South (1892) Said c. 1892
Most so-called color prejudice is sentiment shaped by the association of ideas, not prejudice against color
Nine-tenths of the mis-called color prejudice or race prejudice in this country is mere sentiment governed by the association of ideas. It is not color prejudice at all.
A Voice from the South (1892) Said c. 1892
Work must create wealth and leisure before a race's intellect can show its capabilities
Work must first create wealth, and wealth leisure, before the untrammeled intellect of the Negro, or any other race, can truly vindicate its capabilities.
A Voice from the South (1892) Said c. 1892
Agnosticism has nothing to give and urges people to stand on nothing
Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there too.
A Voice from the South (1892) Said c. 1892
Faith means treating the truth as true
To me, faith means treating the truth as true.
A Voice from the South (1892) Said c. 1892
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