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.

She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.

I am the kind of a woman that likes to move on mentally from point to point, and I like for my man to be there way ahead of me. Then if he is strong and honest, it goes on from there. Good looks are not essential, just extra added attraction.

I am her friend, and her tongue is in my mouth. I can speak her sentiments for her, though Ethel Waters can do very well indeed in speaking for herself.