The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

Please God, please suh, don't let him love nobody else but me. Maybe Ah'm is uh fool, Lawd, lak dey say, but Lawd, Ah been so lonesome, and Ah been waitin', Jesus. Ah done waited uh long time.

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

I am her friend, and her tongue is in my mouth. I can speak her sentiments for her, though Ethel Waters can do very well indeed in speaking for herself.

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.

Perhaps love is a compelling necessity imposed on man by God that has something to do with suffering

I love myself when I am laughing.