Don't you love nobody better'n you do yo'self. Do, you'll be dying befo' yo' time is out.

It is easy to be hopeful in the day when you can see the things you wish on.

I have been amazed by the Anglo-Saxon's lack of curiosity about the internal lives and emotions of the Negroes, and for that matter, any non-Anglo-Saxon peoples within our borders, above the class of unskilled labor.

If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?”'afterwards than before There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.

Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.

Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!

The inference is, that God has restated the superiority of the West. God always does like that when a thousand white people surround one dark one. Dark people are always "bad" when they do not admit the Divine Plan like that. A certain Javanese man who sticks up for Indonesian Independence is very lowdown by the papers, and suspected of being a Japanese puppet.