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

My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

I know how to handle women who act like ladies, but my landlady ain't no lady. Sometimes I even wish I was living with my wife again so I could have my own place and not have no landladies.

Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas

A dog gets lonesome just like a human. He wants to associate with other dogs, but when they take him out, the poor dog is on a leash and cannot run around.

I will not take "but" for an answer.