It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!

If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen de light at all.

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

When we sing the blues, we're singin' out our hearts, we're singing out our feelings. Maybe we're hurt and just can't answer back, then we sing or maybe even hum the blues.

But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate.

Taint no law on earth dat kin make a man be decent if it aint in 'im.