“There is no color line in death.”

“Life is for the living.Death is for the dead.Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.”

“Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers. The mountains and the endless plain-- All, all the stretch of these great green states-- And make America again!”

“Your explanation depresses me," I said."Your nonsense depresses me," said Simple.”

“Cheap little rhymesA cheap little tuneAre sometimes as dangerousAs a sliver of the moon.”

“Of course Covarrubias wasn't a negro, but how he caught the darky spirit!”

“As much as they loved Negroes, Neroes didn't seem to love Michael and Anne.”