Listen to my story and everything will come out true

It's a long old road, but I know I'm gonna find the end.

I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo.

No time to marry, no time to settle down; I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin' around.

The Greatest Blues Singer in the World Will Never Stop Singing.

I ain't good-lookin', but I'm somebody's angel child.

There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good.

I need a little sugar in my bowl and a little hot dog in my roll.

When my bed is empty, Makes me feel awful mean and blue. My springs are getting rusty, Living single like I do.

It's a long old road but I know I'm gonna find the end.

writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all

I need to hold on to the faded love ‘cause I love to secure the stems of dying flowers

Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. There's something wrong with that.

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

In a very unscientific statement, I feel that there's been a disconnect between this clever brain and the heart.

Ye canna give up hope when that is all ye have.

Remember when movies were just good or bad, before auteurs, film festivals, and guys from USC who were the first to shoot underwater?

I don't see,' I said, 'how people stand being old. Your insides all dry up. When you're young you're so self-reliant. You don't even need much religion.

A richly detailed, poignant, and utterly fascinating look into another culture and how it is cross-pollinated by our own. It brings to mind the work of Ha Jin in its power and revelation of the new.

Liberals often don't see the problems, and conservatives don't see the promise, of government.