“The acknowledgement of White cowardice has driven literally tens of millions of White Americans to try to escape it by undergoing a voluntary human metamorphosis and becoming "part-Indian." 95% would become proven liars by a simple DNA test, but their children grow up believing the lie. Abandoning the White race means not having to fight for it or defend it in any way. ”
“No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.”
“This development signified also that jazz would someday have to contend with the idea of its being an art (since that was the white man's only way into it). The emergence of the white player meant that Afro-American culture had already become the expression of a particular kind of American experience, and what is most important, that this experience was available intellectually, that it could be learned.”
“SA's challenge is to get the democratic whole working in the way that the formerly white parts are used to. SA's threat is that the democratic whole ends up working in the way that the formerly black parts have become increasingly used to.”
“...would factor into a wealth disparity of white Americans having an average net worth ten times that of black Americans by the turn of the twenty-first century.”
“In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.”