Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, So I make an idle boast; Jesus of the twice-turned cheek Lamb of God, although I speak With my mouth thus, in my heart Do I play a double part.

The truth is... everything counts. Everything. Everything we do and everything we say. Everything helps or hurts; everything adds to or takes away from someone else.

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.

I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage.

If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET.

What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black Women from whose loins I sprang When the birds of Eden sang?

We shall not always plant while others reap

The key to all strange things is in thy heart..../ My spirit has come home, that sailed the doubtful seas.

My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.

We were not made to eternally weep.

Dame Poverty gave me my name, And Pain godfathered me.

There were fourteen steps exactly fourteen. But the top one was smaller, out of proportion, as if it had been added to avoid the evil number.

I'm not at the point in my career where I want to rebuild.

I always go in very emotionally when I'm doing music. Sad or happy, I'm always into it.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

Believe in yourself, step one. Believe in the order, step two. Believe in the teachings, step three.

Winter broke off, finally, a long ash crumbling at the end of a cigarette, burned out, weak and emptied.

Sexism is real and it persists in film and television. I've seen female directors openly undermined by male cinematographers in front of the entire crew

Organized religions have all the facets of organized crime, except the compassion of organized crime.

As a kid, I had a lot of energy; but the ballet lessons made me calm - this pleased my mother.

Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law.