Alex Burger

“I used to want the words ‘She tried’ on my tombstone. Now I want ‘She did it.'”
–Katherine Dunham 

“Life is short, and it’s up to you to make it sweet.”
–Sadie Delany

“Children
when they ask you
why your mama so funny
say
she is a poet
she don’t have no sense”
–Lucille Clifton

“Man, if you gotta ask you’ll never know.” (A reply when asked what jazz is.)
–Louis (Satchmo) Armstrong

“How fair and pleasant you are, O loved one, delectable maiden! You are stately as a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters. I say I will climb the palm tree and lay hold of its branches.”  
–Song of Solomon 7:7-8 (The Bible)

“When men fight with one another, and the wife of the one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of him who is beating him, and puts out her hand and seizes him by the private parts, then you shall cut off her hand.”
–Deuteronomy 25:11-12

“All that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you.”
—Leviticus 9:10

“Ye shall not round the corners of your heads.”
–Leviticus 19:27

“Do not wear clothing woven of two kinds of material.”
–Leviticus 19:19

“A toad does not run in the day for nothing, there must be a green snake in the grass.”
–Nigerian Proverb