You have no idea, sir, how difficult it is to be the victim of benevolence.

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.

If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen de light at all.

So in Jamaica it is the aim of everybody to talk English, act English and look English. And that last specification is where the greatest difficulties arise. It is not so difficult to put a coat of European culture over African culture, but it is next to impossible to lay a European face over an African face in the same generation.

It is a curious thing to be a woman in the Caribbean after you have been a woman in these United States.

The inference is, that God has restated the superiority of the West. God always does like that when a thousand white people surround one dark one. Dark people are always "bad" when they do not admit the Divine Plan like that. A certain Javanese man who sticks up for Indonesian Independence is very lowdown by the papers, and suspected of being a Japanese puppet.