I used to think if I could be free I should be the happiest woman," a young Mississippi woman recalled. "But when my master come to me, and says 'Lizzie, you is free!' it seems like I was in a kind of daze. And when I would wake up in the morning I w...
But it was hard, oh, it was hard. Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love--but sometimes it was so hard to love. Sometimes my heart was sinking so fast with anger, desolation, and weariness, I was afraid it would...
If a forest catches fire, both the dry and the wet will burn up.
Every man has a fool up his sleeve.
The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives.
If the king says that it is night in the middle of the day, look up at the stars.
Life is a ladder -- some will climb up it, others down.
Believe the liar up to the door of his house and no further than that.
He that hath no children doth bring them up well.
The weather, fleecy clouds, and a made up woman don't last long.
A real scoundrel turned up and they took off their hats to him.
A little fire burns up a great deal of corn.
You may lock up the cock, but the sun will still rise.
A pig used to dirt turns up his nose at rice.
Some will enjoy the honey, others will have to put up with the sting.
A dressed up lie is worth more than a badly told truth.
Once the cattle have been split up, then the tiger strikes.
The river may dry up but she keeps her name.
Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.
Never pick up what you didn't put down.
I finally decided what I want to be when I grow up - late.
