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

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

No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept.

I hold that any religion that satisfies the individual urge is valid for that person.

To avoid the consequences of posterity the mulattos give the blacks a first class letting alone. There is a frantic stampede white-ward to escape from Jamaica's black mass.

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.