Quotes About Insight

It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.

you got tuh go there tuh know there.

De wife she de eyes to de man's soul. How kin I see now, when I ain' gottee de eyes no mo'?

Somebody got to think for women and chillun and cows. I god, they sho don't think none theirselves… When Ah see one thing Ah understands ten. You see ten things and don't understand one.

Ah done been tuh de horizon and back and now Ah kin set heah in mah house and live by comparisons.

It's uh known fact...you got tuh go there tuh know there. Yo' papa and yo' mama and nobody else can't tell yuh and show yuh.

For the first time she could see a man's head naked of its skull. Saw the cunning thoughts race in and out through the caves and promontories of his mind long before they darted through the tunnel of his mouth.

She knew because she looked.

It's uh known fact, Pheoby, you got tuh go there tuh know there. Yo' papa and yo' mama and nobody else can't tell yuh and show yuh. Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves.

For the first time she could see a man's head naked of its skull. Saw the cunning thoughts race in and out through the caves and promontories of his mind long before they darted out of the tunnel of his mouth. She saw he was hurting inside so she let it pass without talking.

We Negroes in Eatonville know a number of things that the hustling, bustling white man never dreams of. He is a materialist with little care for overtones.

Ah can look through muddy water and see dry land.

They seemed to be staring at the dark but their eyes were watching God.

For the first time she could see a man's head naked of its skill. Saw the cunning thoughts race in and out through the caves and promontories of him mind long before they darted out of the tunnel of his mouth. She saw he was hurting inside so she let it pass without talking.

Most people is thin-brained.

She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. Then she went inside there to see what it was.

suggestions

Yeah, a real nigga studies his woman. I

If I was coming into the business today, I wouldn't be in it. Knowing what I know, absolutely not.

I see the absurdity in things, and I think it's my job to point it out.

I've become an accidental anthropologist.

Over time, you accumulate a lot of life material.

The purpose of art is to accumulate the human within the human being.

The accumulation of knowledge is a powerful thing.