The Black man is inferior to the white man in the endowments of both body and mind. (whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances).
The Black man is subject to a crushing objecthood. He experiences himself first as an object.
The Black man is no longer willing to endure his inferiority and the white man is not willing to give up his superiority.
The Black man is one for whom the real threat to his life (i.e. to black lives) lies not with police but with other young black men insofar as they are generally more than eight times more likely to be murdered than white people.
The Black man is one to whom the doors of churches, hotels, concert halls and reading rooms are closed as a man, but every place is open to him as a servant.
The Black man is in a situation where society crippled the bird's wing and now condemn it for not flying as fast as they.
The Black man is subject to the fact that there is, painful as it is to accept, only one destiny. And it is white.
The Black man is one who, to enjoy himself in America, must be greatly daring, greatly stolid, greatly humorous and greatly sensitive. And at all times a philosopher.