Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.

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.

Most of us will perish before knowing who we are and why we came here.

why, it beats so i can love you.

Life is full of lessons for the success-minded person who keeps his/her eyes open to what is going on.

Oh, well, I can't tell you; it would be telling you the end. It's a one-character lip-syncing because in the early days, that's what my dad was doing.

The hijacking of an American jet in Athens looms larger in our concern than the parent who kills a child, even though the one happens rarely, and the other happens daily.

In simplicity, there is freedom - freedom to do less and enjoy more.

You can have it all, but you can't do it all.

I'm catholic in the same way, that if a cow was born in a tree, it's a bird!

Islam is not an excuse for thwarting democracy.

A single zealot may commence prosecutor, and better men be his victims.