You know Moms has been accused of liking young men, and I'm guilty.

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

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

My husband was so ugly, he used to stand outside the doctor’s office and make people sick.

Black women, white women- all of them. I'm colorblind. I don't know the difference. I only know you're a human being and you're my children.

Advice to children crossing the street: damn the lights. Watch the cars. The lights ain't never killed nobody.

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