She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.

Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue.

She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.

It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.

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.

She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.

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