No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

Light came to me when I realized that I did not have to consider any racial group as a whole. God made them duck by duck and that was the only way I could see them.

Taint no law on earth dat kin make a man be decent if it aint in 'im.

The very best place to be in all the world is St. Mary's parish, Jamaica. And the best spot in St. Mary's is Port Maria, though all of St. Mary's is fine. Old Maker put himself to a lot of trouble to make that part of the island of Jamaica, for everything there is perfect.

Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.

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

There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.