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.

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.

Faith hasn't got no eyes, but she's long-legged.

Magic is older than writing. So nobody knows how it started.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

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

To a haughty belly, kindness is hard to swallow and harder to digest.