If science ever gets to the bottom of Voodoo in Haiti and Africa, it will be found that some important medical secrets, still unknown to medical science, give it its power, rather than the gestures of ceremony.

...she woke up in time to see the sun sending up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the dark. He peeped up over the door sill of the world and made a little foolishness with red.

Folklore is the boiled-down juice, or pot-likker, of human living.

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

Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.

The North has no interest in the particular Negro, but talks of justice for the whole. The South has not interest, and pretends none, in the mass of Negroes but is very much concerned about the individual.

I note that the Africa loves to depict the grace of reptiles.