I wondered what I would do if I didn't have my God to turn to and be able to read the Book He had divinely inspired.

Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.

Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk.

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.

We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.

I am somebody cause God don't make no junk

Many people know how to criticize, but few know how to praise.

Only those who are being burned know what fire is like.

Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news.

There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.

All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.

Lightning can best be seen in the dark...Bright persons do best in bad circumstances

I hope you take the courage to pursue your dreams. I wish that you will have the determination to start the best day of your life everyday.

It is part of the work of education to have substantive relationships with your students.

I'd rather die than go to heaven.

For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal.

Life is too long to reject the opportunities in front of you every day.

'Goals' and 'caps' on carbon emissions are practically worthless, if coal emissions continue, because of the exceedingly long lifetime of carbon dioxide in the air.

He had everything a dream boy should have. Back, front, sides, Everything. A head.

The surest way to lose at any endeavor is to quit.

Music can make the cerebral accessible, the subconscious hummable. It communicates our shared needs and desires as sentient beings better than any other medium.