Oscar Devereaux Micheaux

“ Sylvia, her goal accomplished, returns south to the Piney Woods school.
"You are the most divine woman in the world, and... as my wife..."
Larry, for reasons that he (and the police) knew well, decided on a change of scenery—and went south to Vicksburg.
"What you think of this junk?"
"Not bad! Saturday is pay day. We'll hear over to the turpentine plant by that Piney Woods school 'n' unload 'em on all them dumb niggahs."
Saturday... the big business deal.
For this reason, Larry came around every Saturday.
"The school and the great service I am doing for our people are my happiness. ”

“ And then—the money troubles hit.
"The school has too many students, the money is just about gone, and Wilson hasn't the heart to turn away the new students who keep coming every day."
"The state pays only $1.49 a year to educate each Negro child—and the colored people who live here are too poor to help us."
And during that sleepless night she could think of nothing but the eternal struggle of her race and of how she could uplift it. ”

“ We are all in favor of your people—but we can't be havin' Negroes voting."
"Y'all knows what I always preach. This is a land for the white man and black folk got ta know their place."
"Let the white man go to Hell with his politics, wealth, and sins. ”