So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.

Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun.

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the grand-daughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. Slaver y is sixty years in the past. The operation was successful and the patient is doing well, thank you. The terrible struggle that made me an American out of a potential slave said "On the line!" The Reconstruction said "Go!" I am off to a flying start and I must not halt in the stretch to look behind and weep.

Distance is the only cure for certain diseases.

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

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.