The loss of love is a terrible thing; They lie who say that death is worse.

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.

The loveliest roses sometimes bear the ugliest thorns.

He who illumines one has begun illumining the world.

Adversity is the litmus of faith, and only by continuing on in a spirit of total determination and self belief do we achieve what we set out to do.

It is easier to fall off of a ladder than to climb one.

Today here, then there, then DEAD (IT"S A FACT, you can't do anything just take it like this.... or be prepare for the worst. Who is prepared never get suprised easy!).

I'm regarded quite asexually by a lot of people. And the people that understand me the best are nearer to what I understand about me.

You can't fix a bad script after you start shooting. The problems on the page only get bigger as they move to the big screen.

I love working with Lars [von Trier]! I've worked with him three times. I did the narration of Dogville and Manderlay.

This is a Happy Birthday card, Made with lots of love by me It's to a Very Important Parent A VIP... ...and you are she

It's not in our nature. Americans have never been a people that drive through a nice neighborhood and say, 'Oh, I hate the people who live in these nice houses.'