They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are… — William Faulkner

They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them: improvidence and intemperance and evasion-not laziness: evasion: of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own.

Faulkner on black Americans.