Don’t it give you the goose pimples when you realize that white people can kill us and get away with it? Just think of it! We are walkin’ targets everywhere we go – on the subway, in the street, everywhere.

Child, when hard luck fall it just keep fallin’.

A woman need a man to claim, even if it’s a dead one.

Sound like a promise that can never happen.

I am lonesome so regular it’s like a job I gotta report to every day.

It’s a poor kind of man that won’t fight for his own freedom.

I’m independent as a hog on ice and a hog on ice is dead, cold, well-preserved and don’t need a mother’grabbin, thing.

Everybody’s got some sin, but if it troubles your heart you’re a gentle sinner, just a good soul gone wrong.

I think women need kindness more than love. When one human being is kind to another, it’s a very deep matter.

Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave – and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.