It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.
The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.
I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.
I regret all of my books.
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.
People can be slave-ships in shoes.
There is something about poverty that smells like death.
Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!