My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow w….

As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat..

...one of the best things about running is that no matter how fast you've run in the past, running fast in the future does not come easily or with an….

My love for my children makes me glad that I am what I am, and keeps me from desiring to be otherwise; and yet, when I sometimes open a little box in….

With his head in his hands, God thought and thought, Till he thought: I'll make me a man!.

The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them..

I'm lonely I'll make me a world..

It is strange how in some things honest people can be dishonest without the slightest compunction..

And Satan smiled, stretched out his hand, and said, "O War, of all the scourges of humanity, I crown you chief..

There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it..

O Black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?.

And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books..

When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there is very l….

Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and philanthropy, they will liberally….

I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an ac….