"It seldom happens, I think, that a man has the civility to die when all the world wishes it." Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne
"Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason." Benjamin Franklin
"To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity." Basil Bunting
"I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside." Louise Nevelson
"I'm sick and tired of black and white people of good intent giving aspirin to a society that is dying of a cancerous disease." Ralph Abernathy
"If slaughterhouses had glass walls, the whole world would be vegetarian." Linda Eastman McCartney
"Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs. I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it." Earl King