I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.

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.

Kid's, Life's too short to be organized. Follow your dreams first, then organize later.

I always ask the question "Is this what I want in my life?"

Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated.

The best learning I had came from teaching.

Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.

Love can be understood only "from the inside," as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper.

Nobody ever fails in Yoga....It is slow in the beginning and rapid in the end. When one is fully matured, realization is explosive.

Usenet is 'the last uncensored mass medium.'

The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.