Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.

Though you may hear me holler, And you may see me cry-- I'll be dogged, sweet baby, If you gonna see me die.

Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop--you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.

In the spring rain, the pond and the river become one. Into every life some rain must fall. Usually when your car windows are down. It raineth on the Just and the Unjust Alike, But the Unjust stealeth the Just's umbrella Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.

Road's in front o' me, Nothin' to do but walk.

I got the Weary Blues And I can't be satisfied.