What do you do with your legacy, and how do you best put it to use?

You got to take the crookeds with the straights. That's what Papa used to say.

As long as the colored man look to white folks to put the crown on what he say . . . as long as he looks to white folks for approval . . . then he ain't never gonna find out who he is and what he's about.

When the sins of our fathers visit us We do not have to play host. We can banish them with forgiveness As God, in his His Largeness and Laws.

Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner.

All you need is the blues. To me, the blues is the book, it's the bible, it's everything.

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