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

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.

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

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

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

As long as what is is-and Georgia is Georgia-I will take Harlem for mine. At least, if trouble comes, I will have my own window to shoot from.

Life for me ain't been no crystal stair