Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.

He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.

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.

But as de old folk always say, Ah'm born but Ah ain't dead. No tellin' whut Ah'm liable tuh do yet.

I have been amazed by the Anglo-Saxon's lack of curiosity about the internal lives and emotions of the Negroes, and for that matter, any non-Anglo-Saxon peoples within our borders, above the class of unskilled labor.