Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the grand-daughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. Slaver y is sixty years in the past. The operation was successful and the patient is doing well, thank you. The terrible struggle that made me an American out of a potential slave said "On the line!" The Reconstruction said "Go!" I am off to a flying start and I must not halt in the stretch to look behind and weep.

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

Taint no law on earth dat kin make a man be decent if it aint in 'im.

But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.

Perhaps love is a compelling necessity imposed on man by God that has something to do with suffering

She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.

Slogans can be worse than swords if they are only put in the right mouths.