“I stay cool, and dig all jive,That's the way I stay alive.My motto, as I live and learn, isDig and be dugIn return.”

“I’s been livin’ a long time in yesterday, Sandy chile, an’ I knows there ain’t no room in de world fo’ nothin’ mo’n love. I know, chile! Ever’thing there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on yo’ soul. An’ to love sho ‘nough, you got to have a spot in yo’ heart fo’ ever’body – great an’ small, white an’ black, an’ them what’s good an’ them what’s evil – ‘cause love ain’t got no crowded-out places where de good ones stay an’ de bad ones can’t come in. When it gets that way, then it ain’t love.”

“I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.”

“So since I'm still here livin',I guess I will live on.I could've died for love--But for livin' I was born.”

“Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.”

“I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.”

“The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss”