I don't always expect good from people. I always expect the bad and I am pleasantly surprised when they are nice.

Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge.

I go to movies and concerts and stuff - that's why I think all my money would be gone if I weren't working because I just keep spending it, on that, and CDs, and I don't know.

I'm not much of an actor, I'm realizing.

I feel lucky to be doing TV right now because I get another chance every day.

Being funny has always mattered a lot to me. It's why I started acting - to make my friends laugh.

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

In writing I found something I could do at least as well as my peers, if not better.

Some things youll never know, and some things youll wish you never knew.

You are complete. Completion has taken place in you eons ago. Accept yourself. Enjoy yourself. This time will never be again, so fulfill the moment with your own self-joy.

If you seek eternity and light and luminosity, seek humility first ... first things first.

Free men are not equal and equal men are not free.

The things that really change the world, according to Chaos theory, are the tiny things. A butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazonian jungle, and subsequently a storm ravages half of Europe.

Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet.

Any eye is an evil eye That looks in on to a mood apart.

Africa must revert to what it was before the imperialists divided it. These are artificial divisions which we, in our pan-African concept will seek to remove.