To a haughty belly, kindness is hard to swallow and harder to digest.

She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.

The very best place to be in all the world is St. Mary's parish, Jamaica. And the best spot in St. Mary's is Port Maria, though all of St. Mary's is fine. Old Maker put himself to a lot of trouble to make that part of the island of Jamaica, for everything there is perfect.

It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.

Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.

Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun.

Now, suppose a Negro does something really magnificent, and I glory, not in the benefit to mankind, but in the fact that the doer was a Negro. Must I not also go hang my head in shame when a member of my race does something execrable? . . . The white race did not go into a laboratory and invent incandescent light. That was Edison. . . . If you are under the impression that every white man is an Edison, just look around a bit.