They may kill me, but they cannot kill my ideas. They can crush my body, but they will not be able to crush my spirit.

Love always elevates the character of man. It never lowers him, provided love be love

Life is lived on its ownother's shoulders are used only at the time of funeral.

It is easy to kill individuals but you cannot kill the ideas.

If the deaf are to hear the sound has to be very loud

I am a man and all that affects mankind concerns me

Lovers, Lunatics and poets are made of same stuff.

For us, compromise never means surrender, but a step forward and some rest. That is all and nothing else.

Revolution is an inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is an imperishable birth right of all. Labor is the real sustainer of society, the sovereignty of the ultimate destiny of the workers.

Merciless criticism and independent thinking are the two necessary traits of revolutionary thinking.

Every tiny molecule of Ash is in motion with my heat I am such a Lunatic that I am free even in Jail.

A goal that is set in your head is only a wish and holds as much form as smoke.

The sum of the particular intentions of God is the universe itself.

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.

I've always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface.

At best doing art you feel like you're led by something that doesn't involve you.

Nothing that is of real value can be lost, only the false dissolves.

The expectation level is high at the University of Alabama and it should be. What's wrong with people expecting excellence?

Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He'll be as dumb as if his lips were stone.

I will become a firefly and even in the day my glow will be seen in spite of the sun. Let others be as butterflies who preen their wings yet depend on the charity of a flower for life.