Ethical and cultural desegregation. It is a contradiction in terms to scream race pride and equality while at the same time spurning Negro teachers and self-association.

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

To a haughty belly, kindness is hard to swallow and harder to digest.

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.

Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.

She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.