The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, came up every morning.

Folklore is the boiled-down juice, or pot-likker, of human living.

I love myself when I am laughing.

Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear, and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom.

I have been amazed by the Anglo-Saxon's lack of curiosity about the internal lives and emotions of the Negroes, and for that matter, any non-Anglo-Saxon peoples within our borders, above the class of unskilled labor.

There's two things everybody got to find out for themselves: they got to find out about love, and they got to find out about living. Now, love is like the sea. It's a moving thing. And it's different on every shore. And living... well... There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.