That a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Bisexuality means I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to love a man, and what about that? Isn't that what freedom implies?

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires.

We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.

Maybe the purpose of being here, wherever we are, is to increase the durability and occasions of love among and between peoples.

Overall, white men run America. From nuclear armaments to the filth and jeopardy of New York City subways to the cruel mismanagement of health care, is there anything to boast about?

Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who I am?

To tell the truth is to become beautiful.

If you are free, you are not predictable and you are not controllable.

If you wholeheartedly expect success, it will happen.

Don’t be afraid. Be the kind of person your mother warned you about.

Don't climb on others to get to the top

I would appeal to Philip she said but to Philip sober.

The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.

I'm sticking with the Heinekens, but doing a few shots here and there.

Usually I commit to something in my head and then I start drawing.

It's time to stop producing stuff, and start producing fun.

Every team that I've played on, I've either been the captain or co-captain.

College coaches want to power the ball inside, they want (their post players) to power the ball up, but no one can shoot from that 15-foot area anymore.