Quote from a book picked up from the La Terraza de San Juan hotel book exchange in Puerto Rico

"No, I do not weep at the world. I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife." 

Hurston, Zora Neale. (1928). "How It Feels to be Colored Me." The World Tomorrow, p. 17. 

excerpted from:

Cannon, K. G. (1988). Black Womanist Ethics. Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press.