Quotes from Jessie Redmon Fauset

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

Sometimes I think no matter how one is born, no matter how one acts, there is something out of gear with one somewhere, and that must be changed. Life at its best is a grand corrective.

Now that she had no strength, now that life stretched around her a dreary procession of sullen, useless days, she realized the beauty inherent in life itself, the miracle of health and sane nerves, of the ability to make a living, of being helpful to others.

Sometimes I think no matter how one is born, no matter how one acts, there is something out of gear with one somewhere, and that must be changed. Life at its best is a grand corrective.

Strange how, after deciding to take life as one finds it, life comes fawning to one's hand.

I'm as strong as I'll ever be without change of interests and surroundings.

She needed the stimulus of an occupation which would take her out of herself.

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.

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.