it seems that tears and laughter, love and hate, make up the sum of life! - Zora Neale Hurston

Gods always behave like the people who created them.

Ah'll clean 'em, you fry 'em and let's eat,' he said with the assurance of not being refused. They went out into the kitchen and fixed up the hot fish and corn muffins and ate. Then Tea Cake went to the piano without so much as asking and began playing blues and singing, and throwing grins over his shoulder. The sounds lulled Janie to soft slumber and she woke up with Tea Cake combing her hair and scratching the dandruff from her scalp. It made her more comfortable and drowsy.

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.