The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.

The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.

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

Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.

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.

All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.

If science ever gets to the bottom of Voodoo in Haiti and Africa, it will be found that some important medical secrets, still unknown to medical science, give it its power, rather than the gestures of ceremony.