"I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry."

-- Shelby Foote

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“There are so many things to be worried about, and I wanted to make a record that people could put on, and it would lift them up the way the sun did for me each day.”
“The black man should seek to be, and he should be encouraged to be, the best possible black man and not the best possible imitation of a white man.”

Source : "The Christian Science Monitor" Newspaper, October 27, 1921.
“The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I like night fishing, even though there is a molecule of terror in it. Maybe it is that tiny bit of terror that I relish, that going mano a mano with another predator in the dark. I know it is not entirely civilized, but there is nothing to compare with the sizzle of fear except, perhaps, the rush of being feared. Either condition confirms you are alive.”
“The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.”
“When I accept a role, I feel that as an artist I have to submit completely to the tutelage of my director. And while I expect to be heard and encouraged and honored, at the end of the day, man, it's the way the director wants it.”
“When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.”
“I was asked by a group to write a song on the theme of brotherhood. This was before women's liberation, when brotherhood meant men and women both, so I wrote the song. Since I had always been very fond of the Passion Chorale, I wrote words to that great piece.”

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