The key to all strange things is in thy heart..../ My spirit has come home, that sailed the doubtful seas.

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

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.

For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth.

There is a point at which honesty becomes mischief. That's when your writing becomes irresistible.

Love, an ocean.

I’ve lived for nothing and might soon die for less. My Life, Part One will be cancelled midway through the first season

I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?

An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important.

It's lovely being a parent and being in a strong marriage with somebody who is your best friend.

Anybody who trusts an electronic voting machine should have their head examined.

Your first instinct when you see a man on the ground is to go down on him.

When a language die we don't know what we lose with language.

I'm trying as hard as I can, and sometimes things don't go your way, and that's the way things go.