Once upon a time a Georgian printed a couple of books that attracted notice, but immediately it turned out that he was little more than an amanuensis for the local blacks--that his works were really the products, not of white Georgia, but of black Georgia. Writing afterward as a white man, he swiftly subsided into the fifth rank.

Youk'n hide de fier, but w'at you gwine do wid de smoke?

Hungry rooster don't cackle w'en he fine a wum.

Licker talks mighty loud w'en it gits loose from de jug.

A colored is a very frightened-to-death Afro-American. A Negro is one that makes it in the system, and he wants to be white. A nigger, he's loud and boisterous…

It's great to be black in Hollywood. When a black actor does something, it seems new and different just by virtue of the fact that he's black.

Among the words that can be all things to all men, the word 'race' has a fair claim to being the most common, most ambiguous and most explosive. No one today w…