Each Fall the graves of my grandfathers call me, the brown hills and red gullies of mississippi send out their electric messages, galvanizing my genes.

I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life.

We dreamed of doing but could not bring ourselves to do.

Love is a rock against the wind. Not soft like silk and lace.

To write a blues song is to regiment riots and pluck gems from graves.

I boil my tears in a twisted spoon And dance like an angel on the point of a needle.

Black Poets should live--not leap From steel bridges, like the white boys do.

Let all Black Poets die as trumpets, And be buried in the dust of marching feet.

If you can't impress them with your argument, impress them with your actions.

So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves.

Loneliness is the worst pain that human can go through specially the period time when technology that is design to keep people away from each other and that period is now (21-Century).

Whenever we attempt to mend the scheme of Providence and to interfere in the Government of the world, we had need be very circumspect lest we do more harm than good.

We have to get very, very tough on cyber and cyber warfare. It is - it is a huge problem.

Those with certain temperaments find no way to endure themselves except by striving towards going under.

Who you really are, your True Nature, is no more tied to the kind of person you've been than the wind is tied to the skies through which it moves.

The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike the melancholy.

I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.

When you are feeling bad, do one thing a day to make your heart dance. It could be a simple thing like looking up at the sky.