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.

My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals.

O Black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?

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.

There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.

Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.

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