What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.

You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served".

I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.

You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.

Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel.

You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.

Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.

How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.

Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.

The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.

You have to come to understand that your life is diminishing rapidly if you don’t convert it into valuable products.

At the time, however, I didn't realize the extent of my granddaughter's sensitivity - or her loneliness. I thought only of myself. Of my own sensitivity and my own loneliness.

In this section you will learn how to use the tools the way that I think you will choose to use them by default.

His life was gentle and the elements So mixed in him that nature might stand up

I respect faith but doubt is what gets you an education.

Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.

Moses is our true founding father.

The trade-off between freedom and security, so often proposed so seductively, very often leads to the loss of both.

We can only change the world if we have a heart for the world and deliver the message for the world. We can only change the world if we evangelize the world.

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.