Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.
The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.
I think that books are fundamentally educational.
Race and class are rendered distinct analytically only to produce the realization that the analysis of the one cannot proceed without the other. A different dynamic it seems to me is at work in the critique of new sexuality studies.
Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.
The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.
Because books are written by individuals, it has often made knowledge seem like the product of individuals, even though everybody has always understood that individuals are working within the social network.
One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can help them be proud.
Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else.