[In 1951] we were also told that the Russians could be parachuting from planes over our town at any time. These were the same Russians that my uncles had fought alongside only a few years earlier. Now they had become monsters who were coming to slit our throats and incinerate us. It seemed peculiar. Living under a cloud of fear like this robs a child of his spirit. It's one thing to be afraid when someone's holding a shotgun on you, but it's another thing to be afraid of something that's just not quite real.

Now all the criminals in their suits and ties are free to drink martinis and watch the sunrise

You have to know that you're the best whether anybody else tells you that or not. And that you'll be around, in one way or another, longer than anybody else. Somewhere inside of you, you have to believe that.

What looks large from a distance, close up ain’t never that big.

There's no liquor in the land that can stop your brain from bleedin

You got men who can't hold peace and women who can't control their tongues. The rich seduce the poor, and the old seduce the young.

Call me any name you like I will never deny it.