Find your own voice & use it, / use your own voice & find it.

In the sense that I also try to reflect the fullness of the black experience, I’m very much a jazz poet.

. . . I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway.

Let the radiance of light be your guide.

History is made by those who see beyond what already exists. They see all the things that don’t yet.

People optimize locally - that is, they do what's best for themselves.

Yet for every peak there is a valley.

Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind.

I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.

I dwell 'neath the shades of Harvard In the State of the Sacred Cod, Where the Lowells speak only to Cabots And the Cabots speak only to God

Because sometimes when things are going really well, we find the one thing we're pretending we're not looking for.

The man who is all morality and intellect, although he may be good and even great, is, after all, only half a man.