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

Slogans can be worse than swords if they are only put in the right mouths.

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

Now they got to look into me loving Tea Cake and see whether it was done right or not! They don't know if life is a mess of corn-meal dumplings, and if love is a bed-quilt!

When Janie looked out of her door she saw the drifting mists gathered in the west -- that cloud field of the sky -- to arm themselves with thunders and march forth against the world. Louder and higher and lower and wider the sound and motion spread, mounting, sinking, darking.

Work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find.

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.