Quotes from Charles W. Chesnutt

It was a prerogative of aristocracy, Ellis reflected, to live upon others, and the last privilege which aristocracy in decay would willingly relinquish.

Had Julius lived in a happier age for men of his complexion, the world might have had a black Aesop or Grimm

Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.

Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.

We are all puppets in the hands of fate and seldom see the strings.