"The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor."
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"Like the dead-seeming, cold rocks, I have memories within that came out of the material that went to make me. Time and place have had their say."
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"She's got those big black eyes with plenty shiny white in them that makes them shine like brand new money and she knows what God gave women eyelashes for, too. Her hair is not what you might call straight. It's negro hair, but it's got a kind of white flavor. Like the piece of string out of a ham. It's not ham at all, but it's been around ham and got the flavor."
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"Folklore is the boiled-down juice, or pot-likker, of human living."
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"If it was so honorable and glorious to be black, why was it the yellow-skinned people among us had so much prestige?"
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"..she began to stand around the gate and expect things. What things? She didn't know exactly. Her breath was gusty and short. She knew things that nobody ever told her. For instance, the words of the trees and the wind. .. She knew the world was a stallion rolling in the blue pasture of ether. She knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up. It was wonderful to see it take form with the sun and emerge from the gray dust of its making."
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"I thought that when they said Atlantic Charter, that meant me and everybody in Africa and Asia and everywhere. But it seems like the Atlantic is an ocean that does not touch anywhere but North America and Europe."
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"Perhaps love is a compelling necessity imposed on man by God that has something to do with suffering"
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"I do not share the gloomy thought that Negroes in America are doomed to be stomped out bodaciously, nor even shackled to the bottom of things. Of course some of them will be tromped out, and some will always be at the bottom, keeping company with other bottom-folks."
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"It must be recess in (heaven) if St. Peter is lettin his angels out."
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"Grown people know that they do not always know the why of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof. Hence the irritation they show when children keep on demanding to know if a thing is so and how the grown folks got the proof of it. It is so troublesome because it is disturbing to the pigeonhole way of life."
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"She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman."
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"So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter."
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"It was the meanest moment of eternity."
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"There is something about poverty that smells like death."
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"anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!"
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"God took pattern after a pine tree and built you noble."
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"Every tub sits on its bottom."
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"She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them."
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"Look lak she been livin' through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring."
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