I don't know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. . . I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.

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.

Mystery is the essence of divinity

I note that the Africa loves to depict the grace of reptiles.

It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.

Every tub sits on its bottom.

Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me.