To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.

Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you.

Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.

A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.

At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.

Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.

Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.

The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.

The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.

You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.

The focus on our destiny and understanding our true self keeps us from not giving up

Regulate your mind. Do not worry excessively about the future. If you have done everything that has to be done, the future will take care of itself.

His heart was as great as the world but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

Success is to achieve some of your dreams that you have dreamed as a boy.

Long before I ever started acting, believe it or not, I always knew I wanted to be a director.

Dizzy, Duke and Charlie Parker were the greatest jazz legends of all time.

I am going to keep having fun every day I have left, because there is no other way of life. You just have to decide whether you are a Tigger or an Eeyore.

I love to rock, but it's liberating not to always have to keep up with the freight train that is the Old 97's

Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.

If I don't ask for something, I'm not going to get it.