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

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.

Whenever I write for hotel reservations, I always enclose a set of rules I have made for the hotels.

No matter what you do, no matter how far away you run, what’s written in the stars cannot be undone.

I feel like Alice in Wonderland. Maybe Lewis G Carroll was on drugs too.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

We prefer to find mates who are roughly as attractive as we are, which means they are more likely to stay and not look for a better offer.

Poached eggs are good, poached animals are not.

I always like toast in a crisis.

No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being; that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed.

Considering the alternative. . . it's not too bad at all.

If I could even do that [playing] in a softball league, I would never miss anything about baseball.

New arts destroy the old.