“Men of honor wear suit that is black as a shoe and do not blacken their good name.”
“The little girls were wearing black party dresses and black party shoes, so strangers would know at once how nice they were. ”
“I wear this because it suits me, it’s a part of who I am, of what I am. My soul is black, my life is black—as black as the nothingness that surrounds me.”
“Entertainment has a bad name...The word wears spandex, pasties, a leisure suit studded with blinking lights. ”
“You wear your honor like a suit of armor... You think it keeps you safe, but all it does is weigh you down and make it hard for you to move.”
“The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.”