Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.

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

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.

The very best place to be in all the world is St. Mary's parish, Jamaica. And the best spot in St. Mary's is Port Maria, though all of St. Mary's is fine. Old Maker put himself to a lot of trouble to make that part of the island of Jamaica, for everything there is perfect.

The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, came up every morning.

it seems that tears and laughter, love and hate, make up the sum of life!

Look lak she been livin' through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring.