Everybody is two beings: one lives and flourishes in the daylight and stands guard. The other being walks and howls at night.

Don't you love nobody better'n you do yo'self. Do, you'll be dying befo' yo' time is out.

So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.

Magic is older than writing. So nobody knows how it started.

It is a curious thing to be a woman in the Caribbean after you have been a woman in these United States.

When we sing the blues, we're singin' out our hearts, we're singing out our feelings. Maybe we're hurt and just can't answer back, then we sing or maybe even hum the blues.

When I pitched headforemost into the world I landed in the crib of Negroism.