E. Franklin Frazier

“Civilization is a social heritage, which is transmitted from one generation to another and is not carried in the blood stream.”

“As the result of the dissolution of the simple family organization, the Negro woman has developed a spirit of independence and self-reliance.”

“The black bourgeoisie, as it is constituted today, is an inheritance of the Negro's rural folk background.”

“The so-called 'Negro problem' is not a separate and distinct problem, but is an integral part of the American social problem.”

“The Negro church has been the most important social institution in the life of the Negro.”

“Education has been the chief means by which the Negro has sought to escape from his subordinate status.”

“The process of assimilation has been slowed down by the color line.”

“For the Negro intellectual, the choice is not between a 'black' and a 'white' world.”

“The Negro has been uprooted from his ancestral soil and has been transplanted to a new world where he has been forced to learn a new language and new ways of life.”

“The school is the one agency that can provide a basis of common experience and common traditions for the Negro.”

“The Negro family has been the most important agency for the transmission of the social heritage of the Negro.”

“Middle-class Negroes have developed a deep-seated inferiority complex.”