"It is a common thing for a man to be in love with his wife when she is dead."

"White people are not the problem. It is the problem of white people that they think they are the problem."

"There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you."

"Dat's what makes a man and a woman. You can't have one without the other."

"The very first principle of life is this: Never let anybody get your goat."