
“If the American Negro is to have a culture of his own he will have to leave America to get it.”
As quoted in "Paul Robeson and Negro Music" in The New York Times (5 April 1931)
The Outsider (1953)
“If the American Negro is to have a culture of his own he will have to leave America to get it.”
As quoted in "Paul Robeson and Negro Music" in The New York Times (5 April 1931)
Interview with Evelyn Rich (March 1985)
1970s, Tape transcripts (1971)
Source: Souls of Black Folk & Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933-1945 & Movements of the New Left 1950-1975
The More Beautiful World our Hearts Know is Possible http://charleseisenstein.net/project/the-more-beautiful-world-our-hearts-know-is-possible/
The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible. The Vision and Practice of Interbeing (2013)
Misquoted by Diane S. Dew http://www.dianedew.com/sanger.htm (2001)
Omits words from a letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble Sanger proposing the "Negro Project", where Sanger wrote: "And <span style="color:darkgray">we do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population,</span> and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea <span style="color:darkgray">if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.</span>"
The quote was similarly misused in "Women, Race, & Class" (12 February 1983) by Angela Davis, where it is implied that that Sanger was organizing an extermination campaign and the minister would be the main propaganda milling machine.
Misattributed
Quoted in: Richard Roud, Godard, introduction (1967, repr. 1970).
2015, Remarks to the United Nations General Assembly (September 2015)
“The cultured give happiness wherever they go. The uncultured whenever they go.”
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago