I like the idea of generalizing the narcotic thing by making it black meat addiction.
I never posed as a saint. I would have slept with a man for nothing if I liked him well enough.
I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty.
If whites bored me, it was because they bored themselves. They seemed to get little fun out of life and were desperately lonely.
Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.
I wondered what I would do if I didn't have my God to turn to and be able to read the Book He had divinely inspired.
Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.
Because I lived so close to the school and walked there every day, I used to enjoy the school bus trips.
The first thing people look at with Four Seasons records is the vocals. But for me, the drum fills and rhythms are as much a part of it as anything. They're the base on which the harmonies were built.
The ancients knew something, which we seem to have forgotten.
The thing about nightmares was that you couldn't prepare for them. They sneaked up on you when you were most vulnerable.