You got tuh go there tuh know there.
When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
They made burning statements with questions, and killing tools out of laughs. It was mass cruelty.
There's two things everybody got to find out for theyselves; they got to find out about love, and they got to find out about living.
Sometimes she stuck out into the future, imagining her life different from what is was.
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
So de white man throw down de load and tell de nigger man tuh pick it up. He pick it up because he have to, but he don’t tote it. He hand it to his womenfolks. De nigger woman is de mule uh de world s...
She hated the old woman who had twisted her so in the name of love. Most humans didn’t love one another nohow, and this mislove was so strong that even common blood couldn’t overcome it all the time.
Pheoby, yuh got tuh go there tuh know there. Yo' papa and yo' mama and nobody else can't tell yuh and show yuh. Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God and they got t...
No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.
Looking, waiting, breathing short with impatience. Waiting for the world to be made.
Like the dead-seeming, cold rocks, I have memories within that came out of the material that went to make me. Time and place have had their say.
Just g’wan back home and set down on yo’ royal diasticutis and say nothin’.
It is so easy to be hopeful in the daytime when you can see the things you wish on. But it was night, it stayed night. Night was striding across nothingness with the whole round world in his hands . ....
If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all. Ah wuz fumblin’ round and God opened de door.
I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
I don't know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. . . I wa...
Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.