Life for me ain't been no crystal stair

It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.

I stay cool, and dig all jive, That's the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.

Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.

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

If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.

The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm