What would you do if I died? If you died I would want to die too. So you could be with me? Yes. So I could be with you. Okay.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

The point is there ain't no point.

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.

Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

The rain falls upon the just And also on the unjust fellas But mostly it falls upon the just Cause the unjust have the just's umbrellas

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.

Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

All I have learned, I learned from books.

The truth can do years of work in seconds.

Some fool aims to go to heaven

Promises from Lo are like bars at 2 a.m.--empty.

It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

That's really part of being a grounded theory researcher - putting names to concepts and experiences that people have.

No one wakes up one day and decides they want to become a drug dealer or they want to be a stick-up kid. Those decisions are made after a series of events have happened in one's life.

There are directors who, their direction is high, but then when you challenge it, it crumbles. They can't back up what they're asking.

Against the advice of my wife, I endorsed Arlen Specter. I should have listened to my wife.

When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended.