Then I reminded myself that all intelligent children suffer bad dreams.
Things that I would say or would like to saw are just easier to sing about and put out there in music.
For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.
You're gonna know my name by the end of the night
I don't believe in competition, ain't nobody else like me around
I was just a very emotional player. I wore my emotions on my sleeve. I pretty much told you how I felt. I didn't mince words, so to speak. If I felt bad, I let you know that I felt bad. If I felt you were playing sorry, I told you. If I was playing sorry, I told myself that. I came from an era when losing really hurt. I didn't see anything good about it.
All I can do is do what I can do, and do what I know how to do. I do what I love to do, and that's pretty much it.
You might be able to thrash your way out of a spiderweb, but thrashing in quicksand doesn’t work. The harder you fight, the more ground you lose. Struggling merely expedites your inevitable defeat.
From one point of view becoming is a humiliation, and from another a royal procession.
It depends on the state itself to retain or abolish the principle of representation, because it depends on itself whether it will continue a member of the Union. To deny this right would be inconsistent with the principle on which all our political systems are founded, which is, that the people have in all cases, a right to determine how they will be governed. This right must be considered as an ingredient in the original composition of the general government, which, though not expressed, was mutually understood. . .
Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.