Janie knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up. It was wonderful to see it take form with the sun and emerge from the gray dust of its making.
Truth is a letter from courage!
People ugly from ignorance and broken from being poor.
Mystery is the essence of divinity
No man may make another free.
Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.
He has only heard what I felt.
'Course, talkin' don't amount tuh uh hill uh beans when yuh can't do nothin' else. And listenin' tuh dat kind uh talk is jus' lak openin' yo' mouth and lettin' de moon shine down yo' throat. It's uh k...
I have been in sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows with a harp and sword in my hands.
Six eyes were questioning God.
You got de keys to de kingdom.
The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
Look lak we done run our conversation from grass roots tuh pine trees.
It was the meanest moment of eternity.
It was hard to love a woman that always made you feel so wishful.
He looked like the love thoughts of women.
Insensate cruelty to those you can whip, and grovelling submission to those you can't. Once having set up her idols and built altars to the, it was imevitable that she would worship there. It was inev...
It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.