I am in the earth and the earth is in me

Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as bones dance within the body. Yesterday is within today. Yesterday never dies.

Is it a crime to want to be good? she cried

Our power comes from the earth

They breathed. They felt their lungs fill the sky, and they let the dark clouds inside them flow out. Then they connected to the earth.

Life shifting, as life does

Gringos! They have copied us again

Talent does not automatically generate success. You can be talentless, but so long as you have fortitude then you will have success.

In a stress pressure-cooker like America, I believe we will see more and more shooting massacres. Violence is in our cultural DNA.

Poetry is the most concentrated form of literature; it is the most emotionalized and powerful way in which thought can be presented.

[T]he moralists of Europe [have] pretended that beasts have no rights... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous... on which a native of the Asiatic uplands could not look without righteous horror.

In our democracy we must have a partnership of labor, of business and of government.

The biggest honor of my career was when I won R&B Artist of the Year back in the 1970s. I look at that as a major honor.

I wouldn't like Greece to stay recession. I do think that everything has to be undertaken to reconnect with growth.

Ive been to London twice. I saw the Broadway show Billy Elliot there - phenomenal. I was crying through the entire thing.

Less is more when you do a bright, bold lip. Just draw on black liner and some mascara and you're good to go!