“Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.”

“When you sit right down in the middle of yourself you're gonna wanna have a comfortable chair.”

“We dance round in a ring and suppose,
But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.”

“I was walking home the other night, and I was thinking about it, and do you worry that when you're old you will be on your own?”

“If a man isn't being nice when you're out, all you have to do is remain polite and then go home early.”

“You're a little honey and you're quite a dish.
Saturday night we're goin' fishin' to fish.”

“It is not mysterious to be home on a Saturday night, reading a novel in a pile of smelly golden retrievers.”

“Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. ”

“When you're with the person you love, you're home.”

“When you're sitting at home or living at a slower pace and you see that Black folks in your community are attacked, killed, murdered by vigilantes and by the police, you wake up, you rise to action, and you rise quickly.”