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

Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.

The North has no interest in the particular Negro, but talks of justice for the whole. The South has not interest, and pretends none, in the mass of Negroes but is very much concerned about the individual.

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.

I was born in a Negro town.

You heard me. You ain't blind.

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