“An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.”

There is two things everybody got to find out for themselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.

The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.

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.

My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.

Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.

I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.

Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.

If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all.

I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.

And I can’t die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I’m a cracked plate.

People can be slave ships in shoes.

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.

She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.

Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.

Sometimes we just need to know that there is someone who cares. 

Sometimes all you need is someone who never gives up on you.

Sometimes, we all laugh for a joke which is not funny and cry for a love not meant to be.

Stop giving your heart to people who don’t deserve it.

A broken heart, falling & flowing in love.

Heart is capable of so much more than just anger and bitterness.  

The present moment is all we truly have and there is so much beauty around to enjoy if we open our eyes and heart to it.

People love at their level of self-love.