"If you have a problem, you don't go to the doctor, you go to the root doctor."

"I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands."

"Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place."

"Dat's what makes life so funny. Everybody want to be boss and nobody don't want to be boss."

"You can be a good citizen and still be a Negro."