They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.

Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don't know nothin' but what we see.

A great state is a well-blended mash of something of all the people and all of none of the people. The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the same horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.

I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.

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

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.