I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.

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.

Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.

Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept.

There's two things everybody got to find out for themselves: they got to find out about love, and they got to find out about living. Now, love is like the sea. It's a moving thing. And it's different on every shore. And living... well... There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.

It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.