But as de old folk always say, Ah'm born but Ah ain't dead. No tellin' whut Ah'm liable tuh do yet.

She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.

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!

Everybody is two beings: one lives and flourishes in the daylight and stands guard. The other being walks and howls at night.

Every tub sits on its bottom.

Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off on a journey unless it's in the sea, and it's homesick, and bound to make its way home someday.

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.