I know that nothing is destructible; things merely change forms.
I love myself when I am laughing.
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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.
Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.
I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
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.
It is easy to be hopeful in the day when you can see the things you wish on.
I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.
No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
Such as I am, I am a precious gift.
People can be slave-ships in shoes.
When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
Silence is all the genius a fool has.
There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
Faith hasn’t got no eyes, but she’s long-legged.
Ethical and cultural desegregation. It is a contradiction in terms to scream race pride and equality while at the same time spurning Negro teachers and self-association.
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.