"You know, honey, us colored folks is branches without roots and that makes things come round in queer ways. You in particular. Ah was born back due in slavery so it wasn't for me to fulfill my dreams of whut a woman oughta be and to do . . . Ah wanted to preach a great sermon about colored women sittin' on high, but they wasn't no pulpit for me."
This quote is saying that colored folks (blacks) have things happen to them in weird and crazy ways. She was also talking about how when she tried to fulfill her dreams, but colored people couldn't do that. She wanted to preach about colored women moving to the top, but there was no where for her to sit to where she could even hear the other preachers preach. i think what she is trying to say is that things didn't come easy for colored women when she was growing up.
"These sitters had been tongueless, earless, eyeless conveniences all day long. Mules and other brutes had occupied their skins. But now, the sun and the bossman were gone, so the skins felt powerful and human.
The sitters, I think were happy to not be controlled while they wee working, and they were happy that the sun had gone down. They had been working all day long, and they were tired. They were also tired of getting yelled at, so when the boss went home and the sun went down, they didn't feel like something other than humans, they felt exactly like humans.
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