It is strange how in some things honest people can be dishonest without the slightest compunction.

As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs.

My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her.

At a very early age I began to thump on the piano alone, and it was not long before I was able to pick out a few tunes? I also learned the names of the notes in both clefs, but I preferred not be hampered by notes.

A great wave of humiliation and shame swept over me. Shame that I belonged to a race that could be so dealt with; and shame for my country, that it, the great example of democracy to the world, should be the only civilized, if not the only state on earth, where a human being would be burned alive.

And God stepped out on space, and He looked around and said: I'm lonely - I'll make me a world.

When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there is very little difference the world over.