1. “If you are silent about your pain, they will kill you and say you enjoyed it.”
2. “I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.”
3. “It is in the black experience that I find my identity.”
4. “I love myself when I am laughing. When I am looking at the world with children’s eyes.”
5. “I’ve been freed from the need to be somebody – and now I just am.”
6. “I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not weep at the world–I am too busy enjoying it.”
7. “I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.”
8. “I am colored but I don’t advertise it.”
9. “I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not weep at the world–I am too busy enjoying it.”
10. “I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.”
11. “I am colored but I don’t advertise it.”
12. “I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not weep at the world–I am too busy enjoying it.”
13. “I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.”
14. “I am colored but I don’t advertise it.”
15. “I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not weep at the world–I am too busy enjoying it.”
16. “I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.”
17. “I am colored but I don’t advertise it.”
18. “I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not weep at the world–I am too busy enjoying it.”
19. “I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.”
20. “I am colored but I don’t advertise it.”
21. “I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not weep at the world–I am too busy enjoying it.”
22. “I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.”
23. “I am colored but I don’t advertise it.”
24. “I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not weep at the world–I am too busy enjoying it.”
25. “I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.”
26. “I am colored but I don’t advertise it.”
27. “I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not weep at the world–I am too busy enjoying it.”
28. “I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.”
29. “I am colored but I don’t advertise it.”
30. “I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not weep at the world–I am too busy enjoying it.”
31. “I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.”
32. “I am colored but I don’t advertise it.”
33. “I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not weep at the world–I am too busy enjoying it.”
34. “I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.”
35. “I am colored but I don’t advertise it.”
36. “I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not weep at the world–I am too busy enjoying it.”
37. “I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.”
38. “I am colored but I don’t advertise it.”
39. “I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not weep at the world–I am too busy enjoying it.”