Africa has her mouth on Moses.

For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. for three hundred years the island was spoken of as a paradise of riches and pleasures, but that was in reference to the whites to whom the spirit of the land gave welcome. Haiti has meant split blood and tears for blacks.

You got to go there to know there.

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

Work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find.

We must learn to be honest with ourselves, and know our shortcomings. We will acquire cohesion but we will pay dearly for being a slow pupil.

Every tub sits on its bottom.