One of the blind spots of most Negroes is their failure to realize that small overtures from whites have a large significance... I now realize that this feeling inevitably takes possession of one in the bitter struggle for equality. Indeed, I share it. Yet I wonder how we can expect total acceptance to step full grown from the womb of prejudice, with no embryo or infancy or childhood stages.

The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian's Stand in Time of Transition (ed. University of Virginia Press, 1962) - ISBN: 9780813920290