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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
I regret all of my books.
I was born in a Negro town.
Every tub sits on its bottom.
No man may make another free.
every heart has its graveyard.
Love, I find, is like singing.
Africa has her mouth on Moses.
All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.
You heard me. You ain't blind.
truth is a letter from courage!
I love myself when I am laughing.
you can't beat me and my prayers!
It costs you something to do good!
You got to go there to know there.
Mystery is the essence of divinity
Such as I am, I am a precious gift.
People can be slave-ships in shoes.
Silence is all the genius a fool has.
It was the meanest moment of eternity.
My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
Gods always love the people who make 'em.
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
He looked like the love thoughts of women.
Tell me, and then again show me, so I can know.
Distance is the only cure for certain diseases.
want won't kill you half as quick as worry will.
Faith hasn't got no eyes, but she's long-legged.
Gods always behave like the people who make them.
Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
Work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find.
God took pattern after a pine tree and built you noble.
I been through living for years. I just ain't dead yet.
There is something about poverty that smells like death.
I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
[Proverbs] are short sayings made out of long experience.
Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.
Magic is older than writing. So nobody knows how it started.
I note that the Africa loves to depict the grace of reptiles.
