Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.
Women tend to take care of men a lot, but I like a guy who balances that out and takes care of me, too.
But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form.