I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief.
She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
Gods always behave like the people who make them.
Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept.
They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.