“They wouldn’t have a single one of us around if they could help it. It don’t matter to them if we’re shut out of a job. It don’t matter to them if niggers have only the back row at the movies. It don’t matter to them when they hurt our feelings without caring and treat us like slaves down South and like beggars up North. No, it don’t matter to them... White folks run the world, and the only thing colored folks are expected to do is work and grin and take off their hats as though it don’t matter... O, I hate ’em!”
