Everybody's got some sin, but if it troubles your heart you're a gentle sinner, just a good soul gone wrong.

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.

Everybody's got some sin, but if it troubles your heart you're a gentle sinner, just a good soul gone wrong.

The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.

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

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.