[OT] Help identify this quote.

[Terraism]

A friend of mine is looking for the original location of this quote, for English. She's stumped. I figured I'd ask here, since I can always figure on at least a few people knowing the answer... Anyway, here's the quote.

What the faceless years will do to me. I do not know. I see Time's footprint and I gaze into his reflections. My knees have dragged the basement of tell and i have been in Sorrow's kitchen, and it has seemed to me that I have licked out all the pots.

Thanks for any help.

 

[The It's Man]

Susan Straight wrote the novel Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots.

I have no idea if the title is part of a story in her book or that she used the quote herself.

Edit:
I found the quote "I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain
wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands."
as written by Zora Neale Hurston

 

[BadMojo]

The bit about Sorrow's kitchen seems to be a quote from Zora Neale Hurston, but I don't think the actual text you quoted is from her. It was someone quoating ZN Hurston, if that helps. Sorry. That's all i've got.