"The Negro is a poet in spite of himself."

"To be human, one must be able to laugh. To be human, one must be able to weep."

"She was a rut in the road. Everybody else rode on, but she was stuck."

"It is a common thing for a man to be in love with his wife when she is dead."

"The very first thing I want to do is to get hold of a white man and get him to tell me how he feels about being white."