Now, women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.

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.

The holy knowledge is the fear of God.

He who binds to himself a joyDoes the winged life destroy

With the young writers now it’s F and C all day long, which he, personally, finds boring.

Once people get to the promise land, they have to perform miracles by themselves.

Adaptability to change is itself a hallmark of successful education.

Pick something else".For an instant's flash Kylis remembered being taunted like this before, when she was very small. Anything but that. Anything but what you really want.

My eyes glaze over at a writer solving tiny problems.

I never wanted to be a businessman, I just wanted to change the world

What we seek in the end is not unconditional love but a love for which we, uniquely in all the world, meet all the conditions.