I also know there are timeless waters, endless seas, and lots of people in this world whose names don't matter to anyone but themselves. I look up at the sky and I see you there.

All anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too.

Love is like the rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you're not careful it will drown you.

Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them.

There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness.

When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.

It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind, to receive the letters and greet family members when they come back.

People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.

I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when it’s at its extreme. And that’s what they end up knowing about it.

Toni Cade Bambara said: “Writing is the way I participate in the struggle.”

Misery won't touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprints on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you to know of.

DEATH is big business.Thank god for capitalism.

Fear leads to death as the window to the courtyard. Jump!

...home lies in the things you carry with you everywhere and not the ones that tie you down.

Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours.

Everything is beautiful. Pop is everything.

People have preconceptions about women of a certain age.

The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.

You learn from experiences, and I suppose that's where I color most of my music, from experiences.

The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.

You know what I think happened? After 'Rocky,' I was almost set up in the eyes of the media to make a flop.