We started the family Bible after slavery was abolished. My great-grandmother remembered the Bible being started, which meant that she was a slave as a young girl. When she died, the Bible was at least 105 years old, so she must have been nearly 115 years old. Her daughter, my grandmother, died at 97, and her husband at 98.

You never know when what you do in the arts means something to people, and you never really know if you've been received well.

It's presumptuous for us to think we are the only beings in the cosmos.

Louis Gossett, Jr. Quotes