Your explanation depresses me," I said. "Your nonsense depresses me," said Simple.

America never was America to me And yet I swear this oath - America will be!

When I were a young man, I used to play baseball and steal bases just like Jackie Robinson. If the empire would rule me out, I would get mad and hit the empire.

How still, How strangely still The water is today, It is not good For water To be so still that way. ~ "Sea Calm

Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone bill, the furniture bill, the water bill, the gas bill, insurance, house rent.