Don’t lose what you had to get something which just may not work.
Death to the young is more than that undiscovered country; despite its inevitability, it is a place having reality only in song or in other people’s grief.
Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
But the true nature of the human heart is as whimsical as spring weather. All signals may aim toward a fall of rain when suddenly the skies will clear.
Black folks can’t change because white folks won’t change.[repeated line]
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Be the best of anything you get into. If you want to be a wh**e, it’s your life. Be a damn good one. Don’t chippy at anything. Anything worth having is worth working for.
Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.
Ask for what you want and be prepared to pay for what you get.
Anything that works against you can also work for you once you understand the Principle of Reverse.
All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us all that we are more alike than we are unalike.
A smart man only tells half of what he thinks.
