Next to music beer was best. — Carson McCullers

Because of the insolence of all the white race he was afraid to lose his dignity in friendliness.

"I'm one who knows. I'm a stranger in a strange land."

She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram full of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.