I doubt not God is good, well-meaning, kind

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.

The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it

Where there are people, there is injustice, and that is not God’s design. It may not be our fault, but it is our fight. Let us do our part by holding up our corners.

He swallowed his food this time and actually spoke instead of humphing,

The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.

I have a suggestion," said Valentine to Luke, in a surprisingly even tone. "Let me guess," said Luke. "It's 'Don't kill me,' isn't it?

It's the first time I've been cold for seven years. I was never cold playing rugby league.

Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.

The Coach does not play in the game, but the Coach helps the players identify areas to improve their game.

The world has changed, but education has not changed with it.

A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in such places is a spy.