All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.

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.

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

It seems like the first law of Nature is that everybody likes to receive things, but nobody likes to feel grateful.

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

She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.

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