Things wouldn’t have been so bad if black men as a whole had not accepted their oppression and added to it with their own taboos and traditions. - Bessie Emery Head

No words, however wise, could explain the awfulness of the death, not while the living were firmly attached to love, child-bearing, child-rearing, hunger, struggle, and the sunrise of tomorrow. Life had to flow all the time, for the living, like water in a stream.

There's only one way to make yourself shock-proof. Do not be impressed by evil and do not be impressed by good.

In this country there is a great tolerance of evil. It is because of death that we tolerate evil. All meet death in the end, and because of death we make allowance for evil though we do not like it.