When God had made The Man, he made him out of stuff that sung all the time and glittered all over. Some angels got jealous and chopped him into millions of pieces, but still he glittered and hummed. So they beat him down to nothing but sparks but each little spark had a shine and a song. So they covered each one over with mud. And the lonesomeness in the sparks make them hunt for one another.

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.

every heart has its graveyard.

It is a curious thing to be a woman in the Caribbean after you have been a woman in these United States.

[Proverbs] are short sayings made out of long experience.

She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.

anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!