Writers are encouraged to "keep 'em laughing" and complain "with good humor" in order to "win" allies. The joke is always on ourselves.

The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.

Everybody's got some sin, but if it troubles your heart you're a gentle sinner, just a good soul gone wrong.

Writers are encouraged to "keep 'em laughing" and complain "with good humor" in order to "win" allies. The joke is always on ourselves.

your soul is an inner something that is another you and hardly anybody knows what it's really thinkin' except you.

Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne.

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