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

It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.

...she woke up in time to see the sun sending up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the dark. He peeped up over the door sill of the world and made a little foolishness with red.

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

Now, suppose a Negro does something really magnificent, and I glory, not in the benefit to mankind, but in the fact that the doer was a Negro. Must I not also go hang my head in shame when a member of my race does something execrable? . . . The white race did not go into a laboratory and invent incandescent light. That was Edison. . . . If you are under the impression that every white man is an Edison, just look around a bit.

Look lak she been livin' through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring.

God took pattern after a pine tree and built you noble.