"By now the rain rushed down instead of fell down. It was like what my old folks used to call raining tomcats and hoe …"

"“But I ain’t made up my mind on hell, not yet. Maybe it’s truly a-burning away, down below our feet, right this minut…"

"“If you drop a hook in, you’ll get a bite right quick,” I said. “Maybe not the biggest fish, but the best fighter. Th…"

"Anyway, you think for yourself. And if a man can’t do that, he isn’t really thinking."

"I don’t rightly know today whether I was scared at that time. A thing can come along and happen to you, and you don’t…"

"But if I feared it, I faced up to it anyway. A man’s got to be a man sometime. You show me one who was nair afraid, a…"

"Mind your feet, don’t stumble, and don’t be afraid. Because there never was a better time not to be afraid."

"Weather was a-getting ready to happen."

"Would you end war? Create great Peace."

"To be a god First I must be a god-maker: We are what we create."