Griefs assured are felt before they come.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.

…So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky

He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound Pressing, and seeming still to quit his ground.

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

Dead men tell no tales.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

Fortune befriends the bold.

Nobody intentionally sets out to fail or dwell in mediocrity.

An educated man believing in a this-that vile sky-god rewarding him-her, but punishing your enemies with hell and fire, is uneducated.

I'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy.

. . . no Black woman can become an intellectual without decolonizing her mind.

I'd rather be proud of what I am, rather than desperatly try to be something I'm really not; just to fit in.

I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers. And I thank God that President Bush has stated, we need a Constitutional amendment that states that marriage is between a man and a woman.

We are born spiritual creatures, with a body to feel and a mind, to fathom the unknowable.

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?