It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.

Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.

Distance is the only cure for certain diseases.

Perhaps I am just a coward who loves to laugh at life better than I do cry with it. But when I do get to crying, boy, I can roll a mean tear.

I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.

It seems like the first law of Nature is that everybody likes to receive things, but nobody likes to feel grateful.

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.