You men,' she says. 'You durn men.

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.

I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.

The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.

The air brightened, the running shadow patches were now the obverse, and it seemed to him that the fact that the day was clearing was another cunning stroke on the part of the foe, the fresh battle toward which he was carrying ancient wounds.

...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

Let the past abolish the past when -- and if -- it can substitute something better.