Most things are born in the mothering darkness and most things die. Darkness is the womb of creation, my boy. But the sun with his seven horns of flame is the father of life.

[Proverbs] are short sayings made out of long experience.

Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.

It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.

If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen de light at all.

I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.

I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background........Beside the waters of the Hudson" I feel my race. Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept, but through it all, I remain myself. When covered by the waters, I am; and the ebb but reveals me again." How It Feels to Be Colored Me