“I haven’t heard of anybody who wants to stop living on account of the cost.”
“No, I haven’t decided where to live yet.” He thought, I haven’t decided if I want to live yet.”
“So I heard the boom of my father's rifle when he shot my best friend. A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that.”
“I never saw so much life left in someone who had lived so much," said Bernice Latelle, a gospel singer who lived in Bessie's neighborhood and heard her at the Wander Inn. "I don't think anybody or anything could break that woman's spirit.”
“I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.”
“People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven’t what they want that they really don’t want it.”