- There's time enough, but none to spare. - Charles W. Chesnutt, 1901
- As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust. - Charles W. Chesnutt, 1901
- Selfishness is the most constant of human motives. Patriotism, humanity, or the love of God may lead to sporadic outbursts sweep away the heaped-up wrongs of centuries; but they languish at times, while the love of self works on ceaselessly, unwearyingly, burrowing always at the very root of life, and heaping up fresh wrongs for other centuries to sweep away. - Charles W. Chesnutt, 1901
- Sins, like chickens, come home to roost. - Charles W. Chesnutt, 1901
- Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvellously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne. - Alice Childress, 1984
- Pride, like humility, is destroyed by one's insistence that he possess it. - Kenneth B. Clarke, 1974
- You're either part of the solution or part of the problem. - Eldridge Cleaver, 1968
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