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. — Jessie Redmon Fauset Copy Share Image
The old aphorisms are basically sound. First impressions are lasting. — Jessie Redmon Fauset Copy Share Image
Aviation is poetry ... It's the finest kind of moving around, you know, just as poetry is the finest way of using words. — Jessie Redmon Fauset Copy Share Image
I like Paris because I find something here, something of integrity, which I seem to have strangely lost in my own country. It is… — Jessie Redmon Fauset Copy Share Image
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… — Jessie Redmon Fauset Copy Share Image
To be a colored man in America ... and enjoy it, you must be greatly daring, greatly stolid, greatly humorous and greatly sensitive. And… — Jessie Redmon Fauset Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think no matter how one is born, no matter how one acts, there is something out of gear with one somewhere, and… — Jessie Redmon Fauset Copy Share Image
