There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business.

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.

You should not judge

Life is education.Education is a lifetime knowledge.

Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly, Keeps buzzing at the sill. Which I is I?

As a moth gnaws a garment so doth envy consume a man.

Nothing fails like success nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant cause.

There are some rich people who, no matter how much God sends their way, never seem to put their hope in their riches.

The way we see the world determines the way we live our lives

There's something every woman wants, and that's a man to blame.

The goal of all life is death

Give it an understanding, but no tongue.