To avoid the consequences of posterity the mulattos give the blacks a first class letting alone. There is a frantic stampede white-ward to escape from Jamaica's black mass.

Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept.

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

Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.

Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.

Work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find.

So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.