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.

Ethical and cultural desegregation. It is a contradiction in terms to scream race pride and equality while at the same time spurning Negro teachers and self-association.

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.

She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.

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

It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.

She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.