I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they're not alone.

You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served".

I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.

What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.

You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.

Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel.

You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.

Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.

How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.

Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.

Old, is it?" the man asks."Yes, very.""Pre-war, is it?""Yes, " I say. "If by war you mean the Norman invasion.

When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable.

When I got across, I looked back and saw Tyson giving Grover a piggyback ride (or was it a goatyback ride?).

The burning embers within me burst into flame / My body becomes a fire-lit torch. / Ho someone! Send for the mid-wife.

America is the only country where a significant proportion of the population believes that professional wrestling is real but the moon landing was faked.

Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.

I want to go about like the light-footed goats.

I like girls who eat carrots.

I didn't have much of a life in crime as a graffiti writer.

I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.