I am her friend, and her tongue is in my mouth. I can speak her sentiments for her, though Ethel Waters can do very well indeed in speaking for herself.

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

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

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.

From barren brown stems to glistening leaf-buds; from the leaf-buds to snowy virginity of bloom…It was like a flute song forgotten in another existence and remembered again. What? How? Why? This singing she heard that had nothing to do with her ears. The rose of the world was breathing out smell. It followed her through all her waking moments and caressed her in her sleep.

Silence is all the genius a fool has.