"They got up and went to the back of the car. It was an insult. But it was not a surprise. They had seen it before."

"The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell."

"It is not the world that is poisoned, but the vision of the people in it."

"My soul is too deep for tears."

"The highest heaven of Negro expression is to be found in the Negro church."