If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun.
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
I maintain that I have been a Negro three times--a Negro baby, a Negro girl and a Negro woman. Still, if you have received no clear cut impression of what the Negro in America is like, then you are in the same place with me. There is no The Negro here. Our lives are so diversified, internal attitudes so varied, appearances and capabilities so different, that there is no possible classification so catholic that it will cover us all, except My people! My people!
There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons his own food.
Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.
Devote 100 hours every year towards the cause of cleanliness.
I've always known who I am. I might not work perfectly, or be like them, but that's okay. I know I work in my own way.
I remembered something. There's a man. He is bald and wears a short sleeve shirt. And somehow, he is important to me. . . I think his name is. . . Homer.
I used to sketch - that's the way I thought out loud. Then they made a book of my sketches, and I got self-conscious, so now I don't do it much.