The battle of Kursk... the forcing of the Dnieper... and the liberation of Kiev, left Hitlerite Germany facing catastrophe.

Every German soldier must be made to feel that he is living under the muzzle of a Russian gun.

When a decision is taken belatedly, its execution inevitably leads to haste.

Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy.

And I advise ye to think well, he told her It's better to be a stray dog in this world than a man without money. I've tried it both ways, and I know. A poor man stinks, and God hates him.

Losing my anonymity in this world I think is something that I find terrifying.

All the hills and vales along Earth is bursting into song, And the singers are the chaps Who are going to die perhaps.

It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my poems are competing.

The United States and rich countries cannot change Africa from within. It has to impose reform on Africa; it has to come from within.

Americans have begun to understand that trouble does not start somewhere on the other side of town. It seems to originate inside the absolute middle of the homemade cherry pie.

More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.

Maybe I'm just sensitive to that person who's on the outside.

The mediocrity with which Africa has been ruled is responsible for its underdevelopment.