your soul is an inner something that is another you and hardly anybody knows what it's really thinkin' except you.

"The good old days." The only good days are ahead.

Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia Our time is forever now.

And realizing there is no such thing as the Black experience. Time and events allow for change on both sides.

Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave - and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.

Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne.

I'm independent as a hog on ice and a hog on ice is dead, cold, well-preserved and don't need a mother'grabbin, thing.