There's two things everybody got to find out for themselves: they got to find out about love, and they got to find out about living. Now, love is like the sea. It's a moving thing. And it's different on every shore. And living... well... There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all.

So in Jamaica it is the aim of everybody to talk English, act English and look English. And that last specification is where the greatest difficulties arise. It is not so difficult to put a coat of European culture over African culture, but it is next to impossible to lay a European face over an African face in the same generation.

it seems that tears and laughter, love and hate, make up the sum of life!

It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.

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.

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.