I found that a couple of bottles of beer would give me a lift, but the third bottle would sober me up.

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.

Love is my life boat

When a lie has been embedded in the public consciousness, the truth has a difficult time making itself known.

I suppose you've always been amazing at this stuff."- Clary "I was born amazing." - Jace

In salvation, God both declares us guilty and pays our debt. Only he can satisfy his own requirements. A savior less than God would be disqualified; God must do it himself.

We tend to become like the worst in those we oppose.

Those who know the normal life of the poor... will realize well enough that without economic security, liberty is not worth having.

I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.

You value the thing you are fighting for, but then you learn to value the time it takes to do it and the time you have off. Both of which are precious.

It is true that as you have children, there are a good many months when you don't want to be working full-time. I agree that that's an issue.

Ask yourself constantly "Am I treating my fellow citizens as I treat my mum?"