Ain't nothin' an ol' man can do but bring me a message from a young one.

Honey, that Totie Fields is one well-fed white woman. When that gal sits around the house, she sits around the house!

The teenagers aren't all bad. I love 'em if nobody else does. There ain't nothing wrong with young people. Jus' quit lyin' to 'em.

I don't want nothing old but some old money. Buy me some young ideas. That's what I'm gonna do with it.

Ain't nothin' an ol' man can do but bring me a message from a young one.

Love is like playing checkers. You have to know which man to move.

[On old age:] You wake up one morning and you got it.