The white folks like for us to be religious, then they can do what they want to with us.

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

You can't make me do nothing but die!

I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em...

When she stopped kissing him his hand went to her waist to pull her back. the sun beat down on us. The day quivered. The sky was as deep as the ocean. We breathed underwater.

A sense of humor is what makes you laugh at something that would make you mad if it happened to you.

I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.

There is a house in New Orleans they call the Rising Sun, and it's been the ruin of many a poor boy and God I know I'm one.

At the moment they vanished they were everywhere, the cool benediction of the night descended, the stars sparkled, and the whole universe was a hill.

No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

The weird people are the best ones! All of my friends are weird.

People who are most interested in telling the truth about others are generally the least interested in having the truth told about themselves.

I look forward to the end of all this money-making part of the career, to be truthful.

Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.