Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

To a haughty belly, kindness is hard to swallow and harder to digest.

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

She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.

Africa has her mouth on Moses.

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