Zora Neale Hurston
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do it enough to impress themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.