"The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid rich and fanciful."
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you 'til it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer never give up then for that is just the place and time that the tide wi..."
"So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?"
"I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives to give you at once the key to that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers but you ..."
"The past the present and the future are really one: they are today."
"'Cause I's wicked - I is. I's mighty wicked anyhow I can't help it."