It was the meanest moment of eternity.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

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

Perhaps I am just a coward who loves to laugh at life better than I do cry with it. But when I do get to crying, boy, I can roll a mean tear.

It is a curious thing to be a woman in the Caribbean after you have been a woman in these United States.

Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear, and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom.

He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.