“Sit on the truth too long and you mash the life right out of it.”
“People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long.”
“... for I know I shall be interrupted-- I shall want to be, really, because life is too exciting to sit still for long.”
“Sometimes something comes along and tears your roots right out the ground, and that’s when you know you been planted too long.”
“You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.”
“If a Negro got legs he ought to use them. Sit down too long, somebody will figure out a way to tie them up.”