"I was a Leap Year baby, and it seems to me that I have been leaping ever since."

"I hear so many complaints to the effect that Negroes do not take advantage of the educational opportunities offered t…"

"He almost whipped the art out of me."

"Isn't it rather odd that such people should always suppose that when a colored girl gets a chance to develop her natu…"

"We are sneered at for not being the social and intellectual equals, after sixty years of Western civilization, of peo…"

"Enjoying an extraordinary knowledge of languages (ancient and modern), literature, and art, by his cultured personali…"

"the farmer takes Jill down the well & all the king's horses & all the king's men can't put that baby together again c…"

"death is where jimi hendrix is, where our revolution ended up."

"There has always been something wrong wif the tesses. The tesses paint a picture of me wif no brain. The tesses paint…"

""I'm tired," I says. She says, "I know you are, but you can't stop now Precious, you gotta push." And I do."