Quaint, outlandish heathen gods Black men fashion out of rods

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.

Increased physical activity enhances positive energy

Life is choice. You can choose to be who you dream to be or not to be. It all lies in the choice you make every day!

Do you still believe that I am only a dream?"-Alastor

No matter the age, a woman who is unloved is lost - unloved she might as well die.

My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books.

Never put anything past anyone. Stop expecting people to be as genuine as you are, it's never the case & it will almost always be a let down.

The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.

Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.

It's not like I'm narrating stories with music behind them. It's all kind of one thing. You hope you can provoke a specific emotional reaction, but in ways that aren't quite plain.

Critics of Donald Trump take him literally, but not seriously. His supporters take him seriously, but not literally.