"Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“To saucy doubts and fears.”

“Never play with the feelings of others, because you may win the game but the risk is that you will surely lose the person for life time”

“And the more pity that great folk should have count'nance in this world to drown or hang themselves more than their even-Christen.”

“To this urn let those repairThat are either true or fair;For these dead birds sigh a prayer.”

“We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.”

“Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems with power. There is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly.”

“A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.”

“Her heart-is given him, with all its love and truth. She would joyfully die with him, or, better than that, die for him. She knows he has failings, but she thinks they have grown up through his being like one cast away, for the want of something to trust in, and care for, and think well of.”

“While they danced they came over them the weariness with the world, the melancholy, the pity one for the other, which is the exultation of love.”