A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses?
Introducing someone as a "Negro poet with a University degree" or again, quite simply, the expression, "a great black poet. " These ready-made phrases, which seem in a common-sense way to fill a need-or have a hidden subtlety, a permanent rub.