She was afraid to suggest to him that to most people, nothing "happens." That most people merely live from day to day until they die. That, after he had been dead a year, doubtless fewer than five people would think of him oftener than once a year. That there might even come a year when no one on earth would think of him at all.

It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a 'Negro' fraction.

Nothing could stop Mississippi.

beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.

The music is in minors.

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.