So in Jamaica it is the aim of everybody to talk English, act English and look English. And that last specification is where the greatest difficulties arise. It is not so difficult to put a coat of European culture over African culture, but it is next to impossible to lay a European face over an African face in the same generation.

Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.

There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.

Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

I am the kind of a woman that likes to move on mentally from point to point, and I like for my man to be there way ahead of me. Then if he is strong and honest, it goes on from there. Good looks are not essential, just extra added attraction.

So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.

Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me.