I think a nap or a rest overnight is great. But who needs three days of rest? Please! The second day, you might die.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

I know that I'm not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don't know how not to.

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."

The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn't need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder-in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever.

Tell the truth and not the facts.

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