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I cut my teeth as the black raccoon-- For implements of battle.


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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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.



We were not made to eternally weep.

We were not made to eternally weep.



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Dame Poverty gave me my name, And Pain godfathered me.





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Speaking the truth is for losers and egomaniacs.




Or that passion to act a part that sometimes makes us do things finer than we are ourselves?

Or that passion to act a part that sometimes makes us do things finer than we are ourselves?



Mercy laughed. “You have to excuse them—boys suffer from an incurable disability.” “What?” “Testosterone.

Mercy laughed. “You have to excuse them—boys suffer from an incurable disability.” “What?” “Testosterone.



Although not of the quality of my later work, I feel there is some quality to it [my early work] in an art sense, and probably some additional quality in a biographical sense.

Although not of the quality of my later work, I feel there is some quality to it [my early work] in an art sense, and probably some additional quality in a biographical sense.



I am not predicting here that Obama will fail like Jimmy Carter. What I am predicting is the Republican Party is not extinct and will after a period of time become a strong opposition party.

I am not predicting here that Obama will fail like Jimmy Carter. What I am predicting is the Republican Party is not extinct and will after a period of time become a strong opposition party.



Some wounds go so deep that you don't even feel them until months, maybe years, later.

Some wounds go so deep that you don't even feel them until months, maybe years, later.



Love is the law of God. You live that you may learn to love. You love that you may learn to live. No other lesson is required of Man.

Love is the law of God. You live that you may learn to love. You love that you may learn to live. No other lesson is required of Man.



I support freedom of speech - even Pamela Geller's right to her Islamophobic subway posters.

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