I regret all of my books.

I do not share the gloomy thought that Negroes in America are doomed to be stomped out bodaciously, nor even shackled to the bottom of things. Of course some of them will be tromped out, and some will always be at the bottom, keeping company with other bottom-folks.

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

Distance is the only cure for certain diseases.

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

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.