I don't live on a hill. I live down under a hill, in the bottom and I've got a lot of cars, yeah.
Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
I maintain that I have been a Negro three times--a Negro baby, a Negro girl and a Negro woman. Still, if you have received no clear cut impression of what the Negro in America is like, then you are in the same place with me. There is no The Negro here. Our lives are so diversified, internal attitudes so varied, appearances and capabilities so different, that there is no possible classification so catholic that it will cover us all, except My people! My people!
There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons his own food.
Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.
The immoral profession of musical criticism must be abolished.
Wouldst thou multiply thy riches? diminish them wisely; or wouldst thou make thy estate entire? divide it charitably. Seeds that are scattered increase; but, hoarded up, they perish.
When something hasn't been around much for a while, and one example of it turns up and catches people's eyes, they go looking for more like it - until they get tired of it again.
Well I ain't no movie star but I can get behind anything!