you can't beat me and my prayers!

She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.

You got to go there to know there.

Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don't know nothin' but what we see.

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.