You can sing the blues in church if you use the words right.

Ain't but one kind of blues and that consists of a male and female that's in love.

Don't never follow your first mind, cause that's the one that's wrong. 'Cause the Devil beats God to you every time.

White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.

The blues is not a plaything like some people think they are.

Folks talk too fast, and don't understand what they talkin' about.

The brevity of life is grace to walk on your own path.

God you are the only legend of love and truth that we all long for. Thank you Lord.

Manly men and womanly women are still here but feeling nervous.

What other people think of me is not really my major concern in life. What other people think of what I write is another matter.

No one knows why, but second only to eating the brains of the living, the dead love affordable prefab furniture.

The world is so ordered that we must, in a material sense, lose everything we have and love, one thing after another, until we ourselves close our eyes.

The literature of science is filled with answers found when the question propounded had an entirely different direction and end.

They shouldn't call death passing on. They should call it leveling up. Because the game only got harder once I lost. And I was more than a little worried it had only just begun.

Attacking me and women who use contraception by calling us prostitutes and worse cannot silence us.

You definitely feel a little exposed, because some of your friends call you like, "Man, I need that much."