"Got some dirty tricks? If that’s how it is, you done drove your ducks to the wrong puddle."

"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…"

"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."