Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.

The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience

Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

When I was a boy I first learned how much better water tastes when it has set a while in a cedar bucket. Warmish-cool, with a faint taste like the hot July wind in Cedar trees smells.

Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets.

She forced herself once more to think of nothing, to keep her consciousness immersed, as a little dog that one keeps under water until he has stopped struggling