They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.

It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.

I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.

No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.

It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.

Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches

The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.