Every tub sits on its bottom.

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

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.

Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.

If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen de light at all.

No man may make another free.

Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.