If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.

I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.

Through my grandmother's stories always life moved, moved heroically toward an end. Nobody ever cried in my grandmother's stories. They worked, or schemed, or fought. But no crying. When my grandmother died, I didn't cry, either. Something about my grandmother's stories (without her ever having said so) taught me the uselessness of crying about anything."

Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.

Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.

How still, How strangely still The water is today, It is not good For water To be so still that way. ~ "Sea Calm

A dog gets lonesome just like a human. He wants to associate with other dogs, but when they take him out, the poor dog is on a leash and cannot run around.