Number of things happen after I was 50. One, you are hopefully secure in what you want to do - which means that you don't spend a lot of time chewing on your knuckles about your reason for being here.Also, you're at your most beautiful. No woman is ever more beautiful than she is at 50.

Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.

Being physically close to extreme power causes one to experience a giddiness, an intoxication.

Depending on who I am talking about or who's talking through me - if the person is a kind of hip-hop, or rhythm and blues person, or if the person is a kind of old-fashion gothic, meaning gothic attitude, then that will determine what form the poem will take.

Whining is not only graceless, but it can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.

Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. You can be brought low, that's OK, but don't be reduced by them. Just say, 'That's life.'

Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?