Aviation is poetry ... It's the finest kind of moving around, you know, just as poetry is the finest way of using words.

- Jessie Redmon Fauset

To be a colored man in America ... and enjoy it, you must be greatly daring, greatly stolid, greatly humorous and greatly sensitive. And at all times…

- Jessie Redmon Fauset

The Complex of color...every colored man feels it sooner or later. It gets in the way of his dreams, of his education, of his marriage, of the rearin…

- Jessie Redmon Fauset

I like Paris because I find something here, something of integrity, which I seem to have strangely lost in my own country. It is simplest of all to s…

- Jessie Redmon Fauset

Biology transcends society.

- Jessie Redmon Fauset

The old aphorisms are basically sound. First impressions are lasting.

- Jessie Redmon Fauset

Sometimes I think no matter how one is born, no matter how one acts, there is something out of gear with one somewhere, and that must be changed. Lif…

- Jessie Redmon Fauset