And life is what we make it.Always has been, always will be.

I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.

I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.

Even now / I am not old. / I never think of it, and yet / I am a grandmother to eleven grandchildren.

I'll get an inspiration and start painting; then I'll forget everything, everything except how things used to be and how to paint it so people will know how we used to live.

I like to paint something that leads me on and on into the unknown, something that I want to see away on beyond.

People should take time to be happy.

I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.

Life is what you make it.

Memory is a painter. Paintin's not important. The important thing is keepin' busy.

I don't advise any one to take it [painting] up as a business proposition, unless they really have talent... But I will say that I have did remarkable for one of my years, and experience.

God reigns from the deepest depths to the highest heights.

Time and tide and the ravages of sin take their toll on the most noble achievements of man.

Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes.

The price of freedom keeps going up, but the quality keeps deteriorating.

You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.

The hearts letter is read in the eyes.

Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.

Disharmony is natural in any band.

In many ways for black actors there's been two leading guys: It's Will Smith vs. Denzel [Washington].

Audacious faith is the raw material that authentic Christianity is made of. It's the stuff that triggers ordinarily level-headed people like you and me to start living with unusual boldness.