Jessie Redmon Fauset Inspirational Quotes (4)

Biology transcends society.

Aviation is poetry ... It's the finest kind of moving around, you know, just as poetry is the finest way of using words.

The Complex of color...every colored man feels it sooner or later. It gets in the way of his dreams, of his education, of his marriage, of the rearing of his children.

To be a colored man in America ... and enjoy it, you must be greatly daring, greatly stolid, greatly humorous and greatly sensitive. And at all times a philosopher.