“I just clung closer to her and knew the boogeyman couldn't get me, not as long as Mama held me in her arms, not as long as I didn't think about the little girl who had been cut up and stuffed in a trunk -- only a block away from our house -- the one crime that freaked me out when I was still very yo…”— Etta James, amazon.com
“Don't be afraid of being laughed at for failing. Fear being sixty-five years old and never trying.”— Troy Gathers, goodreads.com