"The only thing I like about [fishing] is to sit in the boat and eat hot dogs and drink beer and scream when he catches a fish. And you hope that you don't catch any fish, no, I haven't, they wiggle to…"

"I've been through a lot, but I'm still here."

"If you don't have something to die for, you don't have anything to live for."

"When you're poor and black, you're born into a world that turns your heart into a tin can and anyone who is in the mood swings out and kicks you. You're only a hunk, a black creature in a white world …"

"I didn't have no education, but I had life. And I had the streets."