The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.
I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.
I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on.
I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too.
Friends, to me for years St. Louis represented a city of fear... humiliation... misery and terror... A city where in the eyes of the white man a Negro should know his place and had better stay in it.
I was learning the importance of names - having them, making them - but at the same time I sensed the dangers. Recognition was followed by oblivion, a yawning maw whose victims disappeared without a trace.