Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly.

I'm independent as a hog on ice and a hog on ice is dead, cold, well-preserved and don't need a mother'grabbin, thing.

Some truth has no nourishment in it.

The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.

I think women need kindness more than love. When one human being is kind to another, it's a very deep matter.

Some feminists feel that a woman should never be wrong. We have a right to be wrong.

It's a poor kind of man that won't fight for his own freedom.