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

It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.

Your explanation depresses me," I said. "Your nonsense depresses me," said Simple.

Looks like what drives me crazy Don't have no effect on you-- But I'm gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too.

A dream deferred is a dream denied.

Believing everything she read In the daily news, (No in-between to choose) She thought that only One side won, Not that BOTH Might lose.

Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Do you know that there are libraries in our country that will not stock a book by a Negro writer, not even as a gift? There are towns where Negro newspapers and magazines cannot be sold except surreptitiously. There are American magazines that have never published anything by Negroes. There are film studios that have never hired a Negro writer. Censorship for us begins at the color line.