We miss a lot in life because we don't know when to quit, what to leave out.

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.

A golden spoon is useless when the soup bowl is empty.

She had seen this relationship dying before it ever lived, but allowed optimism and lust to blind her.

When all else fails...try smoking a good cigar and have a stiff drink. If that doesn't work...have another.

Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.

I'm one of the few DJs who uses turntables. I'm the only DJ that's scratching.

Muhammad aware of what to look for and he handled it on his own. He did his own thing. I never programmed him.

Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good--a mere stranger will do no harm.

When it is possible, I choose to have a quiet life.

My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well, my father's father came from the Montana/South Dakota area. They were Blackfoot Indian.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.