... 'Course, talkin' don't amount tuh uh hill uh beans when yuh can't do nothin' else. And listenin' tuh dat kind uh talk is jus' lak openin' yo' mouth and lettin' de moon shine down yo' throat. It's uh known fact, Pheopby, 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.

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.

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.

There is two things everybody got to find out for theirselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.

...you got tuh go there tuh know there.

You have to live with the people to know their needs, and you have to live with God to know how to solve them.

Every person has to live his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people.

One must know oneself. Even if that does not help in finding truth, at least it helps in running one's life, and nothing is more proper.

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life, and there is nothing better.

You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for the changes.

Get real up to a certain age, you need your parents, then later, they need you.

One must educate oneself

She went through her memory for the time, for the day, she and and her husband told him all about what he should and should not do. No goin out into them woods without Papa or me knowin about it. No steppin foot out this house without them free papers, not even to go to the well or the privy. Say your prayers every night...Pick the blueberries close to the ground, son. Them the sweetest, I find. If a white man say the trees can talk, can dance, you just say yes right along, that you done seen em do it plenty of times. Don't look them people in the eye. You see a white woman riding toward you, get way off the road and go stand behind a tree. The uglier the white woman, the farther you go and the broader the tree. But where, in all she taught her son, was it about thou shall own no one, havin been owned once your own self. Don't go back to Egypt after God done took you outa there.