So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange time.

I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief.

I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.

All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.

It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.

No man may make another free.

People can be slave-ships in shoes.