He has told me he likes men as well as he likes women, which seems only natural, he says, since he is the offspring of two sexes as well as two races. No one is surprised he is biracial; why should they be surprised he is bisexual? This is an explanation I have never heard and cannot entirely grasp; it seems too logical for my brain.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to get attention we do, except walk?

They calls me yellow like yellow be my name. They calls me yellow like yellow be my name. But if yellow is a name Why aint black the same. Well, if I say Hey black girl Lord, she try to ruin my game.

I don’t know nothing, I think. And glad of it.

The little I knew about my own self wouldn’t have filled a thimble!

Niggers going to Africa, he said to his wife. Now I have seen everything.

We know a roofleaf is not Jesus Christ, but in its own humble way, is it not God?