"I swear to the Lord I still can't see why Democracy means everybody but me."

"The moon is a disc of silver, the stars are tiny diamonds, and the night is a black velvet cloth."

"The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it."

"Perhaps the most interesting thing about Negroes is that they are so much like everybody else."

"If white people are pleased we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too. The tom-tom cries and the tom-tom laughs. If colored people are pleased we are glad…"