"It’s a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing."

"I have been in sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peak of happiness and seen the world. I have been loved and hated, and I have done some of both. I have been a fri…"

"It seems to me that the human race is like a lot of children playing in a nursery, and the grown-ups are not coming."

"Dat's what makes a man and woman. It's in de mind. It ain't in de body."

"The first thing a Negro learns in this country is to lie."