What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.

You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can't git started without asking the bottle, you in trouble.

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.

The more I wonder, the more I love.

I really think admiration for nature can save us. I mean true admiration, to the point of not letting it be harmed.

It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don't mean nothing if you don't ast why you here, period