I believe that love is the single, true prosperity of any moment.

Bisexuality means I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to love a man, and what about that? Isn't that what freedom implies?

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires.

We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.

Maybe the purpose of being here, wherever we are, is to increase the durability and occasions of love among and between peoples.

Overall, white men run America. From nuclear armaments to the filth and jeopardy of New York City subways to the cruel mismanagement of health care, is there anything to boast about?

Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who I am?

To tell the truth is to become beautiful.

If you are free, you are not predictable and you are not controllable.

Character- building education is what the world needs – education, that will empower the mind with such an unimaginable strength that one would meet death face to face and say “some other time, pal!

I heard raindrops in the nightPattering upon my eaves, Like a pleasing lullabyEasing me back to sleep, Which I thought was odd a bit, For I awoke because of it.

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

Experience is something I always think I have until I get more of it.

Letting yourself off the hook takes the stress away.

If airports can be seen as temples to travel, gateways to other worlds, then airport carpets are the vast prayer mats upon which we all genuflect.

Our poets have sung of wine, the product of a foreign plant which commonly they never saw, as if our own plants had no juice in them more than the singers.

I was a child actor, so when I started filming when I was five years old, it was a long time ago.

Convalescence is a sort of grown-up rebirth, enabling us to see life with a fresh eye.

All disc jockeys are without talent. Noel Edmonds - I can't stand Noel Edmonds.