Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue.
I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.
You'se something tuh make uh man forgit to git old and forgit tuh die.
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
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.
No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.