No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

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

Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.

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

Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the grand-daughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. Slaver y is sixty years in the past. The operation was successful and the patient is doing well, thank you. The terrible struggle that made me an American out of a potential slave said "On the line!" The Reconstruction said "Go!" I am off to a flying start and I must not halt in the stretch to look behind and weep.

The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.

Slogans can be worse than swords if they are only put in the right mouths.