Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place. - Zora Neale Hurston

So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.

I don't know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. . . I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.

The one who makes the idols never worships them, however tenderly he might have molded the clay. You cannot have knowledge and worship at the same time. Mystery is the essence of divinity. Gods must keep their distances from men.

You'se something tuh make uh man forgit to git old and forgit tuh die.