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

They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.

Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don't know nothin' but what we see.

Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun.

Now, suppose a Negro does something really magnificent, and I glory, not in the benefit to mankind, but in the fact that the doer was a Negro. Must I not also go hang my head in shame when a member of my race does something execrable? . . . The white race did not go into a laboratory and invent incandescent light. That was Edison. . . . If you are under the impression that every white man is an Edison, just look around a bit.

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

She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.