Isn't it rather odd that such people should always suppose that when a colored girl gets a chance to develop her natural powers it must be that she will want to become white? It gets to be a tiresome task explaining to them that the desire to become better or more capable is a common quality of all human beings.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Isn't it rather odd that such people should always suppose that when a colored girl gets a chance to develop her natural powers it must be that she will want to become white? It gets to be a tiresome task explaining to them that the desire to become better or more capable is a common quality of all human beings." in the context of "letter to the New York World newspaper (20 May 1923), included in Letters of Note: Art edited by Shaun Usher (2020)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.