“Don't be what you isn't, just be what you is, cause if you is what you isn't you isn't what you is.”

“ 'Sugar, aint you ever had no good time?' she said with a bit of sadness in her voice. 'What you mean?' Sugar said,...'Seems to me that I ain't never see you look up from whatever you were doing and just smile.''Just smile? Smile at what? At who?''Smile into the air, girl!' she said and waved her arm through the air....you better start, 'cause time is running and a life without good times ain't a life worth having.”

“But even if you have what everyone else wants- if it isn't what you want, it isn't what you want”

“Darling, I don't want you; I've got no place for you; I only want what you give. I don't want the whole of anyone.... What you want is the whole of me-isn't it, isn't it?-and the whole of me isn't there for anybody. In that full sense you want me I don't exist.”

“...it's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is.”

“Dreams begin when you stop to pick up the penny - you realize the continual effort you must endure to have something worth obtaining.”

“What you see, isn't always what you get”