Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.

You are responsible for the world that you live in. It is not government's responsibility. It is not your school's or your social club's or your church's or your neighbor's or your fellow citizen's. It is yours, utterly and singularly yours.

As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.

Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.

I cried a river of tears but he was too heavy to float on them. So I dragged him with me these years across an ocean.

I found out life's hard but it ain't impossible.

You are responsible for the world that you live in.