So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange time.

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.

Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.

Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

Light came to me when I realized that I did not have to consider any racial group as a whole. God made them duck by duck and that was the only way I could see them.