Yet do I marvel at this curious thing: To make a poet black, and bid him sing.

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.

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

Suffering is overrated. It doesn't teach you anything.

I think everyone would love to see Jeff Gordon lose or get run into the wall, but I think he uses that - similar to me.

What are you guys doing? If you anted me to take a shower, all you had to do was pay me ten bucks, like you usually do

There is nothing that is truly free nor democratic enough. Make no mistake, the internet did not come to save the world.

Shadow conceals—light reveals. To know what to reveal and what to conceal, and in what degrees to do this, is all there is to art.

You simply cannot blame anyone or anything for causing you to be, think or respond in a certain way.

Just as theater has to be where people live, actors have to go out in the marketplace - not be cut off by a lens. Either an artist grows or he stagnates.

Anyone who takes a hit for Adrian Ivashkov deserves some credit.

Musicians burn through more cash than the Federal Reserve.