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

I am lonesome so regular it's like a job I gotta report to every day.

Where did we get the idea of insultin' folks by pointin' out their age? ... It seems that we think youth is some special accomplishment brought about by the individual himself!

It becomes almost second nature to be on guard against the creative pattern of our own thought.

Writers are encouraged to "keep 'em laughing" and complain "with good humor" in order to "win" allies. The joke is always on ourselves.

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

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.