If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.

Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?

As we look forward to freedom, the shining city on the hill and the best days of America lying ahead, it is the men and women in uniform who protect, defend and make us proud to whom we should look and give thanks every night.

It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish.

Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.