[proverbs] Are Short Sayings Made Out Of

So In Jamaica It Is The Aim Of Everybody To Talk English, Act English And Look English. And That Last Specification Is Where The Greatest Difficulties Arise. It Is Not So Difficult To Put A Coat Of European Culture Over African Culture, But It Is Next To Impossible To Lay A European Face Over An African Face In The Same Generation.

She Starched And Ironed Her Face, Forming It Into Just What People Wanted To See.

Everybody Has Some Special Road Of Thought Along Which They Travel When They Are Alone To Themselves. And His Road Of Thought Is What Makes Every Man What He Is.

She Stood There Until Something Fell Off The Shelf Inside Her.

So Janie Waited A Bloom Time, And A Green Time And An Orange Time.