"a man is no example for a..." - Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?”

“It is amazing what one ray of sunshine can do for a man!”

“A special form of misery had begun to oppress him of late. There was nothing poignant, nothing acute about it; but there was a feeling of permanence, of eternity about it; it brought a foretaste of hopeless years of this cold leaden misery, a foretaste of an eternity "on a square yard of space.”

“Men to be men must be able to trust their womenfolk, even as the latter are compelled to trust them.”

“An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.”

“The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of power.”

“Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.”

“I'm a reflection of the community.”

“How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand, there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep...that have taken hold.”