The only way you can be a mark is if you want something for nothing. If you're greedy, you're set up.

All riddles are blues, / And all blues are sad, / And I'm only mentioning / Some blues I've had.

I am a very religious person, so it is the presence of God, the constant unwavering, unrelenting presence of God which continues to help me to keep a character which I am proud to show.

My mother raised me, and then freed me.

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. So at this wonderful, young age of 65, I don't know yet what the Lord has for me to do. I try to live up to the energy and to the calling, but I wouldn't dare say I have even scratched the surface yet.

Let us live so we do not regret years of inertia and ignorance, so when we die we can say all of our energy was dedicated to the noble liberation of the human mind and spirit, beginning with my own.

Still, when it looked like the sun wasn't going to shine anymore, God put a rainbow in the clouds.