Don't you love nobody better'n you do yo'self. Do, you'll be dying befo' yo' time is out.

You heard me. You ain't blind.

All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.

There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.

Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

I was born in a Negro town.

Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves.