It's a new dawn, it's a new day...and I'm feeling good.

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.

Impossibility is only a whisper away from reality

Water liked to be free. Given time, water could overcome any barrier, and it hated to be trapped, just like Percy.

It is necessary for us to have an imperfect freedom so that we can give ... if we cannot give anything to God, we do not have a share in his Spirit, who by his very nature is Gift.

The science just hasn't been done.

Things are different from what I thought. They're much worse.

And, as Stevie Rae would have said, Kalona was as wrong as manboobs.

Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad.

Shakespeare was of us, Milton was of us, Burns, Shelley, were with us. They watch from their graves!

Fancy optimizers have fancy bugs.

I think that to a great degree, reggae companies have become very corporate and so maybe some don't have that freedom to say whatever they want to say.