Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.