Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

Don't do what you can do - try what you can't do.

There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

contemporary poetry is a kind of Reykjavik, a place where accessibility and intelligence have been fighting a Cold War by proxy for the last half-century.

We are all shaped by what we do.

Decades of corporate government deregulation and reduced funding of important government departments has the country well along the path to a lawless society.

What right does any church have even attempting to approve of lifestyles or certain acts for which God prescribed the death penalty in the Old Testament?

How to get it, I annoy you???You are not interested???What's the idea???

Light may be shed on man and his origins.

My life has been that of someone who has moved from the countryside to the society. To make that transition, I have had to learn a lot.

Memory is never pure. And recollection is always coloured by the life lived since

She was unequal to anyone's wistfulness. She had made too little of her life. Its loneliness shamed her like a crime.

Movement is life. Life is a process. Improve the quality of the process and you improve the quality of life itself.