Quotes
More isolated, insulated, lonely, alienated, estranged black folk especially among the working class and working poor, but it's true across the board and that's what is frightening.
If we had a whole wave of new leaders in the next five to seven years, black America would be a different place.
Community affairs or human relations and even that would have been and few between.
When I was a child of 4 or 5, listening to the conversation of my mother and her sisters, I would sometimes intrude on their territory with a solemnly stated opinion that would jerk their heads in my direction, then send them into roars of uncontrollable laughter.
There is no life that does not contribute to history.
I do not now remember anything I said. But the first adult who caught her breath would speak for them all and say, 'That's no child. That's a little sawed-off woman.' That was to become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.
We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.
They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?
Nothing in life is promised except death.
If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. a lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed.
If y'all fresh to death, then I'm deceased.
I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.
I ain't here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way yall need Jesus.
You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.
Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't.
Edward N. West
There is nothing in the world more dreary than a prayer that attempts to inform God of anything at all.
I didn't know which way I was going to die-run through, conked or poisoned.
It was just kind of in the air at the time. I had a one-man show at the Tanager in '61. I was still involved with some idea of painterliness.