Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down.

Only those who are being burned know what fire is like.

In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.

I never posed as a saint. I would have slept with a man for nothing if I liked him well enough.

Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news.

I am somebody cause God don't make no junk

We miss a lot in life because we don't know when to quit, what to leave out.