Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off on a journey unless it's in the sea, and it's homesick, and bound to make its way home someday.

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

Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.

So in Jamaica it is the aim of everybody to talk English, act English and look English. And that last specification is where the greatest difficulties arise. It is not so difficult to put a coat of European culture over African culture, but it is next to impossible to lay a European face over an African face in the same generation.

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

anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.