Music is a gift and a burden I've had since I can remember who I was.

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.

He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark.

The children are intrigued by these invitation, and it's only a matter of minutes before they find themselves engaged in a new world of possibilities.

Do not allow the fear of hurting stop you from loving.

We live in a world where there is such a clear definition of what a girl should be that it takes almost no effort at all to completely hate ourselves.

She’d die before she let that demon touch her again. But maybe that was his plan all along.

Death is always equal but never fair

Always remember that your humanity is what will touch the people of the world.

When a person says only what others love to hear, he is largely liked; but if he loves to say what he likes only, then others hardly hear him.

There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover up their feet.

No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.