And I can't die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I'm a cracked plate.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.

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.

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

It was the meanest moment of eternity.

They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.

Tain't no use in you cryin' . . . But folks is meant to cry 'bout somethin' or other. Better leave things de way dey is. Youse young yet. No tellin' whut mout happen befo' you die.

He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.

Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don't know nothin' but what we see.

Please God, please suh, don't let him love nobody else but me. Maybe Ah'm is uh fool, Lawd, lak dey say, but Lawd, Ah been so lonesome, and Ah been waitin', Jesus. Ah done waited uh long time.

Gnan is that which does not let kashays arise when one’s pocket is picked.

In the name of the United States and President Bush, I want to thank the Mexican people, President Fox and his government for their friendship.

A character, to be acceptable as more than a chess piece, has to be ignorant of the future, unsure about the past, and not at all sure of what he's supposed to be doing.

The arrow belongs not to the archer when it has once left the bow; the word no longer belongs to the speaker when it has once passed his lips, especially when it has been multiplied by the press.

Plugins can be created to unleash your creativity and break down technical barriers between the artist and his ideas.

History's a resource.

There is no such thing as life in-between.

Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith.

I know a way to stay friends forever, There's really nothing to it, I tell you what to do, And you do it.