I know I'm different, but I don't think about it.

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.

We must graciously endure the times.

I just want to domething that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.

My dad said, 'Stay humble, and you gotta work harder than everybody else.' My mom said, 'Always be yourself.' She always told me only God can judge me.

Love is a positive effect. Love can never have a negative effect, only a positive effect.

People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!

The demands that a great man makes are on himself; those of a petty man are upon others.

Women love energy and grand results.

I had to give him props, but how annoying of him to be a hero when I was trying so hard to dislike him. It was downright selfish.

When my marriage fell apart I started reevaluating my life and I started to call on the Lord.

If you love living, you try to take care of the equipment.