So in Jamaica it is the aim of everybody to talk English, act English and look English. And that last specification is where the greatest difficulties arise. It is not so difficult to put a coat of European culture over African culture, but it is next to impossible to lay a European face over an African face in the same generation.

So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.

I hold that any religion that satisfies the individual urge is valid for that person.

Light came to me when I realized that I did not have to consider any racial group as a whole. God made them duck by duck and that was the only way I could see them.

Africa has her mouth on Moses.

Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept.

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.