Never Love With All Your Heart, It

We Shall Not Always Plant While Others Reap

[w]e Have Always Resented The Natural Inclination Of Most White People To Demand Spirituals The Moment It Is Known That A Negro Is About To Sing. So Often The Request Has Seemed To Savor Of The Feeling That We Could Do This And This Alone.

Death Cut The Strings That Gave Me Life, And Handed Me To Sorrow, The Only Kind Of Middle Wife My Folks Could Beg Or Borrow.

Never Love With All Your Heart, It Only Ends In Aching.

I Was Reared In The Conservative Atmosphere Of A Methodist Parsonage.