But you haven’t never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never...

The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.

The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.

We are homesick most for the places we have never known.

I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.

The job wouldn’t be just put the summer, but for a long time, as long as she could see ahead. Once they were used to the money coming in it would be impossible to do...

Next to music, beer was best.

A person can’t pick up they children and just squeeze them to which-a-way they wants them to be.

There are all these people here I don’t know by sight or by name. And we pass alongside each other and don’t have any connection. And they don’t know me and I don’t know them....

They are the we of me.

Doctor Copeland belt old evil anger in him. The words rose inchoately to his throat and he could not speak them. They would listen to the old man. Yet to word the reason they will...

That was the best of all. To speak the truth and be attended.

The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.

But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes. The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is...

People felt themselves watching him even before they knew that there was anything different about him. His eyes made a person think that he heard things that no one else had ever heard, that he...

In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the...

… and we are not alone in this slavery. there are millions of others throughout the world, of all colors and races and creeds. this we must remember. there are many of our people who...

Her face felt like it was scattered in pieces and she could not keep it straight. The feeling was a whole lot worse than being hungry for any dinner, yet it was like that. I...

After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of...

There are those who know and those who don’t know. And for every ten thousand who don’t know there’s only one who knows. That’s the miracle of all time–the fact that these millions know so...

There was another thing bigger than the tiredness – and this was the strong crew purpose.

That was all he wanted for himself – to give to her. Biff’s mouth hardened. He had done nothing wrong but in him he felt a strange guilt. Why? The dark guilt in all men,...

I feels sorrier for him than anybody I knows. I expect he done read more books than any white man in this town. He done read more books and he done worried about more things....

Leonora Penderton feared neither man, beast, nor the devil; God she had never known.

He waited for the black, terrible anger as though for some beast out of the night. But it did not come to him. His bowels seemed weighted with lead, and he walked slowly and lingered...

Why? Why was it that in cases of real love the one who is left does not more often follow the beloved by suicide? Only because the living must bury the dead? Because of the...

The old bitterness came up in him and he did not have time to cogitate and push it down.

For you see, when us people who know run into each other that’s an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That’s...

He was like a man who had served a term in prison or had been to Harvard College or had left for a long time with foreigners in South America. He was like a person...

The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.

I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.

For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question “Who am I?” recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude. The bewildered soul can answer only: “Since I...

The Captain swallowed his capsules and lay down in the dark with pleasant anticipation. This quantity of the drug gave him a unique and voluptuous sensation; it was as though a great dark bird alighted...

We are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known

First of all, love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved....

Wonderful music like this was the worst hurt there could be. The whole world was the symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen.

Because of the insolence of all the white race he was afraid to lose his dignity in friendliness.

In one of their quarrels, they had begun calling each other Mister. and Misses., and since then they had never made it up enough to change it.

It wasn’t like she was lonely and in fact – she had understood it all in every way except with her brain. Now she knew that she knew.

He did not wholly understand the intricate play of ideas and the complex phrases, but as he read he sensed a strong, who purpose behind the words and he felt that he almost understood.

Maybe that was the trouble. She got the first and biggest share of everything – first whack at the new clothes and the biggest part of any special treat. Hazel never had to grab for...