“There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.”

Life for my child is simple, and is good.

Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.

Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.

What, what am I to do with all of this life?

Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.

As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.

Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.

I don’t like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.

Each body has its art.

With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.

Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.

Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.

One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.

Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.

The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.

The insurance of working with a big, already successful franchise just gives you the chance to do other things on a more personal level.

I’d like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.

Nobody’s safe. Health insurance? That didn’t protect 1 million Americans who were financially ruined by illness or medical bills last year.

The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone bill, the furniture bill, the water bill, the gas bill, insurance, house rent.

The grace of God is like insurance. It will help you in your time of need without any limit.

Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.