Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.

Let me be candid, my party is full of racists

Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.

All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.

This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

And it is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelette in the pan for the love of God.

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something.

To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are.

If I don't have anything to do all day, I might not even put my pants on.

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.

Ladies & GentlemanIf you were happy before him/her, you definitely can be happy without him/her. Don't cry.

In history, the bleeding from arbitrary beatings, forced breedings, and choked-heatbreathing could almost be withstood by soul-feeding songs sung, or listlessly hummed just to go on.

The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons strategems and spoils but his whole life is already a treason and a stratagem.

In the long run the pessimist may be proved to be right but the optimist has a better time on the trip.

Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.

Teach yourself and teach your families about the gift of the Holy Ghost and the Atonement of Jesus Christ. You will do no greater eternal work than within the walls of your own home.

I'm light skinned, and I used to lean on that because that's something a lot of black people pride themselves on, and it's weird.

Pay close attention to any flame of enthusiasm.

So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.

In order to be the best, you have to know your breaking point-go to the edge of it, but never go beyond.