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Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.
It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.
Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue.
It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
I know that nothing is destructible; things merely change forms.
Affection makes your spirit slither out from its concealing spot.
Folklore is the boiled-down juice, or pot-likker, of human living.
So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange time.
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!
It must be recess in (heaven) if St. Peter is lettin his angels out.
I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
Taint no law on earth dat kin make a man be decent if it aint in 'im.
To a haughty belly, kindness is hard to swallow and harder to digest.
Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.
When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.
You'se something tuh make uh man forgit to git old and forgit tuh die.
No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.
They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
it seems that tears and laughter, love and hate, make up the sum of life!
Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
Slogans can be worse than swords if they are only put in the right mouths.
Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun.
You have no idea, sir, how difficult it is to be the victim of benevolence.
If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
When I pitched headforemost into the world I landed in the crib of Negroism.
It is easy to be hopeful in the day when you can see the things you wish on.
When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.
The game of keeping what one has is never so exciting as the game of getting.
The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate.
Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept.
She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.
I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads.
She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.
She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.
I hold that any religion that satisfies the individual urge is valid for that person.