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

The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.

"The good old days." The only good days are ahead.

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

writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.

Some truth has no nourishment in it.

I am lonesome so regular it's like a job I gotta report to every day.