The sacrifice to Legba was completed; the Master of the Crossroads had taken the loas' mysterious routes back to his native Guinea. Meanwhile, the fe….

Experience is the cane of the blind..

You cannot eat a cluster of grapes at once, but it is very easy if you eat them one by one..

Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats, leaving nothing but bones..

As they say, when a man begins to have bad luck, even clabber can break his head..

A tree is made to live in peace in the color of day and in friendship with the sun, the wind and the rain. Its roots plunge in thefat fermentation of….

Heaven has its business and earth has its business: those are two separate things. Heaven, that's the angels' pasture; they are happy; they don't hav….

Water. Its sunny track in the plain; its splashing in the garden canal, the sound it makes when in its course it meets the mane ofthe grass; the dilu….

Peasants are a rude lot, and hard: life has hardened their hearts, but they are thick and awkward only in appearance; you have to know them. No one i….

The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she comes out of the spring and sings whil….

At noon, you walk across a river. It is dry, with not this much water: it is just stones and pebbles. But it rains cats and dogs in the mountains, an….

And at dawn, the drums still beat on the sleepless plain like an unstoppable heart..