"Le passé a été une mine de sang et de chagrin"
“Out of love, no regrets--though the goodness ”
“The past has been a mint of blood and sorrow ”
“Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair”
“We younger Negro artists now intend to express our individual ”
“Friends congratulate me after a quarterly-earnings announcement and say, 'Good job, great ...”
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off agains...”
“A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with...”
“Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the grea...”
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
“At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troub...”
“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent...”
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”