top of page
.png){kind=small}
"The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass."
Standard
Customized
More
"To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy."
Author Name
Personal Development
"When I go to a concert, I can't believe that people pay lots of money to see a band that they obviously like and then they dance the whole time."
Author Name
Personal Development
"When you play music with someone who has a heart rather than playing with someone who is just doing it for money or is cynical it makes all the difference."
Author Name
Personal Development
"As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money."
Author Name
Personal Development
"When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I'd met a woman and I got married, but the money ran out right away. I hadn't had a job for seven months, and it just came over me that I was never going to work again. It hit me."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There's a correlation between the number of digits on a man's bank balance, and, the number of things that his woman is willing to forgive him for."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Just make as much money as you can, but try your best not to rob or get robbed, it will sweep all that you have and leave your hands empty."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'"
Question
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."
Power
"It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are."
Family
"Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home."
Home
"There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation."
People
"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise."
Nothing
"Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week."
Religion
"Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for."
Art
"How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names."
Family
"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."
Friendship
bottom of page