It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

People change and forget to tell each other.

Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.

The two toughest lessons to learn In life are “LET GO” & “LETs GO..!

Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs.

In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.

The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.

Live comedy's a very reckless, foolhardy profession. You're only as good as your last gig so earnings fluctuate.

There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a gently rolling ship; by her, borrowed from the sea; by the sea, from the inscrutable tides of God.

Music to me is something that I didn't choose; it was a necessity. I grew up with music, my father is a musician. It makes me happy; it makes people happy.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll wind up somewhere else. Not all those who wander are lost.

She [Serena Williams] played some great shots, but so did I, and that was the only difference.

To bless thine enemy is a good way to satisfy thy vanity.