If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.
The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
