My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it ... what you wish in your secret heart were not funny, but it is, and you must laugh. Humor is your own unconscious therapy. Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air, and you.

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

Humor is when the joke's on you but hits the other fellow first -- before it boomerangs.

Harriet Tubman lived to see the harvest.

Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows, Help us to see That without the dust the rainbow Would not be.

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.