I Have Great Respect For

If You Find It In Your Heart To Care For Somebody Else, You Will Have Succeeded.

At 50, I Began To Know Who I Was. It Was Like Waking Up To Myself.

When I Passed Forty I Dropped Pretense, 'cause Men Like Women Who Got Some Sense.

Grace Is Like A Lake Of Drinkable Water Right Outside Your Door. But You Stay Inside And Die Of Thirst.

The White American Man Makes The White American Woman Maybe Not Superfluous But Just A Little Kind Of Decoration. Not Really Important To Turning Around The Wheels Of The State. Well The Black American Woman Has Never Been Able To Feel That Way. No Black American Man At Any Time In Our History In The United States Has Been Able To Feel That He Didn't Need That Black Woman Right Against Him, Shoulder To Shoulder-in That Cotton Field, On The Auction Block, In The Ghetto, Wherever.