You know, in addition to your mind-reading abilities, I may have absorbed some sluttiness from your blood.
Honor is infinitely more valuable than positions of honor.
Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.
When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.
It is we who are the measure of what is strange and miraculous: if we sought a universal measure the strange and miraculous would not occur and all things would be equal.
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know.
How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us, we devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.
People expect black women to be angry, irrationally so, without reason. They think we are animals and we go around like the Wild Things.
One generation and another generation; the generation by which we are made the faithful, and are born again by baptism; the generation by which we shall rise again from the dead, and shall live with the Angels for ever.
Anyone can have a once-upon-a-time or a happily-ever-after, but it's the journey between that makes the story worth telling.