I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.
“The written word is the basic of everything. Most important, the idea, and after that, the dialogue. You can rehash the dialogue as you go along, it 's disgraceful to have to do this, but now and again you have no choice.”
“Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.”