“We co-existed in peaceful detachment”

“Its bad enough . . . when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! Thats the end, really, thats the end.”

“What it is, she sighed, to have to choose between self and security.”

“She thinks she is white,' they used to sneer, and that was as bad as a curse.”

“It’s bad enough . . . when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That’s the end, really, that’s the end.”

“What it is,” she sighed, “to have to choose between self and security.”

“If you expect great things of yourself and demand little of others, youll keep resentment far away.”

“There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations”

“One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.”

“It's like it ain't so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.”

“The Thing about people who wanted to show you things was that sometimes their interest in granting you knowledge was laced with a little voyeuristic sadism. They were waiting for the Look or the Re...”

“But I remember one thing: it wasn't me that started acting deaf, it was people that first started acting like I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all.”

“To get answers of life, ask questions”