I had the human rights life, and I had the family business life.

In Florida, then, and for farm workers for the most part in the US, there's a real sense of economic segregation. In the South, the structures of economic segregation still existed.

Man has no ability to repair this damaged planet. The flaw in human nature is too great. God is our only hope!

Grandma sees these things when she talks about them and gestures with her hands like she's painting brush strokes in the air. The way Grandma paints her dreams for me, there's a low sky.

What might happen if we could somehow reorient ourselves toward our more loving, bonobo side rather than our inner mad chimpanzee?

Positive thinking can move mountains, fill up valleys and it can make dry bones to become alive again.

People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us.

We don't fight about money... I hate to see people fight about money.

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.

For my part, I can compare her (a gossip) to nothing but the sun; for, like him, she knows no rest, nor ever sets in one place but to rise in another.

You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh.

You seldom, if ever, get lucky sitting down.