Everybody has some special road of thought along which they travel when they are alone to themselves. And his road of thought is what makes every man what he is.

If it was so honorable and glorious to be black, why was it the yellow-skinned people among us had so much prestige?

The morning air was like a new dress. That made her feel the apron tied around her waist. She untied it and flung it on a low bush beside the road and walked on, picking flowers and making a bouquet… From now on until death she was going to have flower dust and springtime sprinkled over everything.

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

So in Jamaica it is the aim of everybody to talk English, act English and look English. And that last specification is where the greatest difficulties arise. It is not so difficult to put a coat of European culture over African culture, but it is next to impossible to lay a European face over an African face in the same generation.

want won't kill you half as quick as worry will.

Ethical and cultural desegregation. It is a contradiction in terms to scream race pride and equality while at the same time spurning Negro teachers and self-association.