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"The whole matter revolves around the self-respect of my people. How much satisfaction can I get from a court order for somebody toassociate with me who does not wish me near them?"
"And I can't die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I'm a cracked plate."
"I am the kind of a woman that likes to move on mentally from point to point, and I like for my man to be there way ahead of me. Then if he is strong and honest, it goes on from there. Good looks are not essential, just extra added attraction."
"The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor."
"I was born in a Negro town."
"Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun."
"Please God, please suh, don't let him love nobody else but me. Maybe Ah'm is uh fool, Lawd, lak dey say, but Lawd, Ah been so lonesome, and Ah been waitin', Jesus. Ah done waited uh long time."
"To a haughty belly, kindness is hard to swallow and harder to digest."
"Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don't know nothin' but what we see."
"Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept."
"Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her."
"The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got."
"You'se something tuh make uh man forgit to git old and forgit tuh die."
"Africa has her mouth on Moses."
"When I pitched headforemost into the world I landed in the crib of Negroism."