Quotes from J. California Cooper

Listen at me. The end is almost never far off any time at all!

Some people don't even recognize real love when it comes without being called or sought.

But people can take your truth and stretch it, twist it, tear it apart, turn it inside out and when you get it back, you are making enemies and when you try and straighten it out, you talk a whole lot more and give the people new ammunition to shoot back at you and then you have made more enemies!

Love entered in my heart one day A sad, unwelcome guest. But when it begged that it might stay I let it stay and rest It broke my nights with sorrowing It filled my heart with fears And, when my soul was prone to sing, It filled my eyes with tears. But...now that it has gone its way, I miss the dear ole pain. And, sometimes, in the night I pray That Love might come again.

I was foolish because I believed in you. You are a fool because you believe in yourself!

Don't bury it, use it. Don't keep it in, give it away. Don't turn that love in, turn that love out.

There is always some beauty in life. Look up Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and get on with it. Build you a rainbow. Do it yourself! If you can't do that, build your mind near one. Learn how to fly. Then Ã¢â'¬Â¦ soar a little.

Sometimes it's a struggle to get over self-love first. Sometimes in this struggle for love, we give up, or lose everything, and we still don't achieve love. Some people don't even recognize real love when it comes without being called or sought.

Without respect, there is no love … for long, for anyone, but a fool.

This the kind of world, if you don't die, you just keep on growing up and living through everything that comes.

So everybody who talks about homosexuals as a damnation better look in a mirror and try to heal their own selves. Who they call homosexuals do, at least, act out of their love. That's better than the hate a whole lot of people act out of.

You got to pay your dues, too. So you be careful how you live and what goes in that Bank of Life. You are going to get it back Ã¢â'¬Â¦ someday. I can sure tell you that!

See, once a person see what you will do if they don't, they let you keep on doin it! All of it! If you let them!

My life had been peaceful, safe, quiet and restful. I had done invited trouble in and I had done put trouble out.

A person can't tell another person what to put between them and their God.

Cause all these people livin are brothers and sisters and cousins. All these beautiful different colors! We! … We the human Family. God said so! FAMILY!

You know, you don't have to be white to be president of anything. Even of the United States. I could be president! Black as I am! And if you white and poor, you don't have to be rich to get to be president either.

Only a fool asks for happiness in this foolish, worn world. We are . . . content . . . together. That is enough for a while.

Always sighed deep. "Don't talk to your mama like that son. I … I could call you them same names … but I ain't.

My mother had nine more children for the Master of the Land, but they was all sold when they got to be bout three years old by the Mistress of the Land cause they was too white and lookin like the Master of the Land. That, and the money.

It was THAT day the Master of the Land said my mama was goin to go for to be his son's night-mate too, smilin down at her like he was doin her some special kinda good favor.

They was in the farmyard and she just picked up a pitchfork and stabbed him with it.

Don't you make the mistake that men will not let anything go for a beautiful thing to look at. In the morning, the evening, especially the night. Men are fools. Good grand fools. Don't let me mislead you, they are alright. Are they not rich sometimes? I still believe the world belongs to a woman, but only because it belongs to men and they give it to her!

Now, I ain't quite learned bout who makes all the big rules in life, but life sure can be mean and hard sometime.