I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.

You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served".

I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.

What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.

You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.

Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel.

You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.

Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.

How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.

Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.

Why does it have to come down to choosing just one man, when no one man can give me everything I want?

I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos.

Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements.

Control your own time. Don't let it be done for you. If you are working off the in-box that is fed you, you are probably working on the priority of others.

Israel will not tolerate a situation in which Iran has effective control of non-conventional weapons that can be used directly against the state of Israel.

Koenigsegg are saying that the CCX is more comfortable. More comfortable than what BEING STABBED?

I don't feel particularly typecast because I think I do so many different kinds of things. Whether or not they're seen is another issue.

Let the gods into your life and you rapidly lose faith in the natural laws.

One must act in painting as in life, directly.