Not many jobs are available for single women who just want to have babies.

When I listen to people talk, all I hear is what they're not tellin' me.

Things are old. parts are old. I’m talking about ‘us’ parts. AARP-parts. some of us were born with stronger parts than others.

People need to be encouraged, not stepped on and put in a straitjacket!

It's very tiring having other people tell you how much they dig you if you yourself don't dig you.

You won't get eternal life by just feeling the presence of god in flowers or music.

There are better things ahead than what we leave behind.

A man who has been in another world does not come back unchanged.

I don’t spend my hours worrying how to slip a social message into my act.

Brown versus the board of education is no longer the white person’s problem.

People say to me, ‘do you know who you look like?’ and I say, ‘I’m really tired of looking like that guy.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

Things from real life are the things that get people laughing.