I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief.

Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.

Affection makes your spirit slither out from its concealing spot.

When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.

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

I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.