A thing is only right or wrong because you say it is. A thing is not right or wrong intrinsically.
I'm even afraid to lay down with you at night, because when you go to bed at night, mean woman, you got an ice pick in your hand.
It don't take me no three days to record no album.
The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different.
I've got enough money to live me two lifetimes so I don't have to do nothing I don't want to.
Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em.
I do benefits. I do them all the time. There's so many people out there that needs help that I can't say I won't help them.
Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from high places and hastens downwards. . . Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing. Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions. He who can modify his tactics in relation to his opponent and thereby succeed in winning, may be called a heaven-born captain.
My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.
You can't be afraid until you have no other option but to be afraid.
The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.