I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at commensurate speed.

The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my feet without ceasing into the camp of the righteous and into the tents of the free.

I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

Life loves the person who dares to live it.

Blacks concede that hurrawing, jibing, jiving, signifying, disrespecting, cursing, even outright insults might be acceptable under particular conditions, but aspersions cast against one's family call for immediate attack.

Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.