What have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you?

Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind one sees the path. . .

Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.

My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide open far-off things, and listens at the shores of the great silence.

Beyond living and dreaming there is something more important: waking up.

I thought my fire was out, and stirred the ashes…. I burnt my fingers.

Traveler, there is no path, the path must be forged as you walk.

I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.

Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits

What the poet is searching for is not the fundamental I but the deep you.

Avoid pulpits, platforms, stages and pedestals. Keep to the hard ground. It is the only way you can judge your approximate status as a man.

Could any woman live every day with that level of masculinity?

The great thing about a song is that no one has to know your story. But if you tell it in a way that has clarity and means something to somebody else, then it can apply to their story.

Art and activism can be symbiotic. They don't have to be, of course; they can also be contradictory.

History is a tragegy, not a morality tale.

I want to be remembered as someone who tried to bring the story of our ancestors to the broadest possible audience. I want to be remembered as a man who loved his race.

I grew up on the West Side - the "near West Side," [in Detroit], as they say - in what would be considered now the inner city.

If you're looking for someone who can beat the RAW divas, perhaps you should choose someone who's beaten every diva on RAW.

One learns more from defeat than from victory.

I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.

It was definitely some tough moments throughout my life, but I kind of stayed focused and came through the other end of the tunnel.