Black Poetry is not for Black People...it is for everybody

Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.

She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of our old attitudes will change.

We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.

We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.

I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.

Once you know who you are, you don't have to worry anymore.

Embrace the magnificence that is inside you.

Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.

It is better to be without a king than to have a bad one.

Which Anguish was the utterest--then-- To perish, or to live?

You need to prioritize. If you can't get to everything or do everything, that's okay.

The economy of the future might be called the "spaceman economy," in which the earth has become a single spaceship, without unlimited reservoirs of anything.

As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American space program.

I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn't want to listen to my competitors for fear of nicking ideas off them.

Climate change is the perfect pseudoscientific theory for a big government politician who wants more power. Why? Because it is a theory that can never be disproven.

The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender.