Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways.

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

The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.

In the life of everyone there is a limited number of experiences which are not written upon the memory, but stamped there with a die; and in the long years after, they can be called up in detail, and every emotion that was stirred by them can be lived through anew; these are the tragedies of life.

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.

Every race and every nation should be judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst.

Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.