It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
He looked like the love thoughts of women.
Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.
You heard me. You ain’t blind.
Every tub sits on its bottom.
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
It costs you something to do good!
When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.
So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.
There is something about poverty that smells like death.
There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.
Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.