"Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it's different with every shore."

"It seems to me that if I am to sustain myself as a writer, I must be given the right to write as I see fit."

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

"It is human to want to be better than you are."

"Dat's de truth, for it's de only thing dat ain't subject to change."