I'm for economic independence.

I'm against abortion.

I loved Clinton; not as a Democrat, but as a person.

Speaking as a black person, welfare is the worst thing that's ever happened to us.

I took Bobby Kennedy through the delta and he cried like a baby.

We need to take responsibility and educate people. That's why black folks don't like me. I always say it's our responsibility to make safe neighborhoods. It's our job to get them cleaned up.

I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive.

Welfare makes you dependent upon someone to take care of you.

This is a racist country.

I'd rather be dead and in heaven than afraid to do what I think is right.

I love the life I live. The Lord blessed me to be independent. I am independent.

Cleanliness begins with the love for godliness

…and he wasn't reconciled to dying. Dora told him he was going to a better world. "Mebbe, mebbe, " says poor Ben, "but I'm sorter used to the imperfections of this one.

Brother, you can't go to jail for what you're thinking, or that look in your eye, just standing on the corner watching all the girls go by.

Men who have a thirty-six-tele vised-football- games-a- week-habit should be declared legally dead and their estates probated.

Experience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. What really teaches a man is not experience, but observation.

The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage.

By calling it a memoir, I meant is as a collection of memories. I thought it was (a more) artful (title) than documentary.

It is the disease of cowards, who do not have the courage to speak upfront and so talk behind one's back... Watch out against the terrorism of gossip!

I can't bring myself to say, 'Well, I guess I'll be toddling along.' It isn't that I can't toddle. It's just that I can't guess I'll toddle.

After I became confident in Him it didn't matter what anyone said because I was confident in something and someone way bigger than myself.