We must be warriors in the struggle against ignorance

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

You might encounter defeats but you must never be defeated... Love a lot. Laugh a lot at the silliest things and be very serious... love life.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Women been gittin' pregnant ever since Eve ate that apple.

Because of the routines we follow, we often forget that life is an ongoing adventure. . . Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art: to bring all our energies to each encounter, to remain flexible enough to notice and admit when what we expected to happen did not happen. We need to remember that we are created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.