I look for something universal in songs rather than something personal. I look for something that will give us a platform for live improvisation.

My songs, they have just the one chord, there's none of that fancy stuff you hear now, with lots of chords in one song. If I find another chord I leave it for another song.

See, I have a different type of music from other peoples. They playing the other kind of blues, and I'm playing cotton-patch blues.... Ain't nobody now can play the blues that I play.

I came out of school just at the time regional theater was first expanding. All of a sudden, lots of new companies needed actors.

I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.

I'm an introverted sort of writer.

I think we are all of the same opinion that "wherever you go, there you are," and if you are constantly searching for paradise outside of yourself, you will miss what is in your own backyard.

Only by first acknowledging that we are living beings together here on this planet before labeling ourselves as anything else can we hope for peace on Earth.

Oversight versus Insight: Most of us want to oversee the situation without insight of the situation. Knowledge is King.

Education gives you the ability to know it. Intelligence gives you the capacity to fix it. Wisdom lets you know when to do it.

No matter how difficult things may seem, all things are possible.

Papas should be loving their children so much that they cry when they gone. That’s what papas is supposed to do.

Stop categorizing and labeling! This is your way to avoid the unknown but brings the risk to avoid the new!

Red lips like a living, laughing rose.

It is not what you say or hope or wish or intend but only what you do that counts. Your choices tell you unerringly who you really are.

A woman can be sexy, charming, witty or shy with her shoes.

No great spiritual event befalls those who do not summon it.

Although it raine, throw not away thy watering pot.

I see other black women imitate my style, which is no style at all, but just letting our hair be itself. They call it the Afro Look.

She laughed, and the sound was so melodic that I knew I wanted to hear it again.

And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability.