Love is a rock against the wind. Not soft like silk and lace.

I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life.

We dreamed of doing but could not bring ourselves to do.

Each Fall the graves of my grandfathers call me, the brown hills and red gullies of mississippi send out their electric messages, galvanizing my genes.

To write a blues song is to regiment riots and pluck gems from graves.

I boil my tears in a twisted spoon And dance like an angel on the point of a needle.

Black Poets should live--not leap From steel bridges, like the white boys do.

Let all Black Poets die as trumpets, And be buried in the dust of marching feet.

He accomplished wonders of diplomacy on the principle, never give way, and never give offense.

That is the nature of democracy. It is hard. It is not always inspiring.

Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted surviving bastards the satisfaction of his death.

What great comedians, great comic writers, great comic actors do is that they just read the headlines with the right eyebrow position and it's funny.

Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.

That which comes easily departs easily. That which comes of struggle remains.

The arrow of Marxist-Leninism must be used to hit the target of the Chinese Revolution.

Here, cover yourself with this and I'll wash your shorts." "Oh, I don't care if you see me," says Peeta.

I'm always in these situations where I forget to separate what is pitched as an idea to the fact that I'm actually going to have to execute it.

I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know anything else.