My aunts lived on liquor and seldom felt like eating much. I don't know what's wrong about a kid stealing when he's hungry.

Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.

Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk.

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.

We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.

I am somebody cause God don't make no junk

Many people know how to criticize, but few know how to praise.

Only those who are being burned know what fire is like.

Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news.

There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.

All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.

There are not enough days in forever to allow me to fully express the depth of my love for you.

Those who reach for the Sun, usually drop the world.

Stand out tall amidst challenges! Dwarf all irrelevant voices.

We are to renounce the evil influence of the world, the flesh, and the devil. There can be no parleying, bargaining, compromise, or hesitation. Christ demands total loyalty.

At HBO, they seem to be well-informed. They make what I think are really quite mature films.

The terms socialist and communist are mostly about describing the world we want after capitalism, and I think they are both important.

I've bumped into at least three people in town who all insist 'Winter's Bone' is about them.

When you're too relaxed it's not good to create.

Every living being is an engine geared to the wheel-work of the universe.

All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.