Lord, I fashion dark gods, too, Daring even to give You Dark despairing features

The truth is... everything counts. Everything. Everything we do and everything we say. Everything helps or hurts; everything adds to or takes away from someone else.

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.

I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage.

If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET.

What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black Women from whose loins I sprang When the birds of Eden sang?

We shall not always plant while others reap

The key to all strange things is in thy heart..../ My spirit has come home, that sailed the doubtful seas.

My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.

We were not made to eternally weep.

Dame Poverty gave me my name, And Pain godfathered me.

... and then beginning to go back to what you can't even remember.

When to elect there is but one Tis Hobson's Choice take that or none.

Every film had its own grammar. And it's your job as a director to basically figure out a language to tell a story.

Let your heart go out and abide in things. Let things return and abide in your heart.

I used to dream. I used to glance beyond the stars. Now I don't know where we are Although I know we've drifted far!

Structure influences behavior. Design spaces that make you feel "you are welcome here and that you came to the right place."

There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God.

I hate games I can't win.

I'm sick of the tabloids' saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don't like it.

patience is an integral part of talent.