Ain't nothin' an ol' man can do but bring me a message from a young one.
[On turning down an invitation to appear for four minutes on the Ed Sullivan Show:] Honey, it takes Moms four minutes just to get on the stage.
Use those brains that God put in your head.
A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man's man only as long as he can
I don't want nothing old but some old money. Buy me some young ideas. That's what I'm gonna do with it.
Honey, that Totie Fields is one well-fed white woman. When that gal sits around the house, she sits around the house!