Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races. Votes: 8
It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays. Votes: 6
My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them. Votes: 3
Whenever I write for hotel reservations, I always enclose a set of rules I have made for the hotels. Votes: 0
There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing. Votes: 0
I dressed plain, but my partners were always spending more money on clothes than I could afford. Votes: 0
Among Negroes it is a bad omen when someone knocks on the door of a house where a person has died. Votes: 0
I am an isolationist. Votes: 0
I never posed as a saint. I would have slept with a man for nothing if I liked him well enough. Votes: 0
If I wanted pity, I got it because I'm illegitimate. And when I didn't want it I was mean and nasty. Votes: 0