Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

Nowadays silence is looked on as odd and most of my race has forgotten the beauty of meaning much by saying little. Now tongues work all day by themselves with no help from the mind.

In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna$$$ convinced its performance is the reason the world has people in it.

What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it?

A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double.

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

There are three ingredients to the good life; learning$$$ earning$$$ and yearning.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

With the arrogance of youth$$$ I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. If I have succeeded in some small way$$$ if only in one small corner of the world$$$ amongst the men and women I love$$$ then I shall count myself blessed$$$ and blessed$$$ and blessed$$$ and the work goes on.