There were too many ears that listened for others besides themselves, and too many tongues that wagged to those they shouldn't.

Baby, we have no choice of what color we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here.

I do not know how old I was when the daydreams became more than that, and I decided to write them down, but by the time I entered high school, I was confident that I would one day be a writer.

I'm a Southerner, born and bred, but that doesn't mean I approve of all that goes on here, and there are a lot of other white people who feel the same.

These are things they need to hear, baby. It's their history.

We ain't never gonna lose this land.

She grabbed his arm. "Let it be, son!" she cried. "That child ain't hurt!" "Not hurt! You look into her eyes and tell me she ain't hurt!

No day in all my life had ever been as cruel as this one.

We Logans don't have much to do with white folks. You know why? 'Cause white folks mean trouble.

So many things are possible as long as you don't know they are impossible.

Now one day, maybe I can forgive John Andersen for what he done to these trees, but I ain't gonna forget it. I figure forgiving is not letting something nag at you—rotting you out.

Every challenge, I have faced, dares me to seek a higher power.

I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with Prudential. All I can say is: When I go they go!

I try to make an album that reflects what I love about country music. It's not just all about happy parties all the time. There are some sad songs.

Life is what you allow yourself not to see.

On all things created remaineth the half-effaced signature of God, Somewhat of fair and good, though blotted by the finger of corruption.

Put a pair of high heels on a fellow and just look what he was reduced to.

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

Man arose to high moral vision two thousand years before the Hebrew nation was born.

We trample the blood of the Son of God underfoot if we think we are forgiven because we are sorry for our sins.