Life for me ain't been no crystal stair
The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it.
This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.
Life dosent frighten me at all.
The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
I've been scared and battered. My hopes the wind done scattered. Snow has friz me, Sun has baked me, Looks like between 'em they done Tried to make me Stop laughin', stop lovin', stop livin'-- But I don't care! I'm still here!