I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I've dreamed.

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.

Fearlessness means surrendering one’s outcomes – in essence, making peace that your outcomes regarding life’s events ---may or may not come to fruition.

If you’re mad that I kissed you, I won’t apologize for that.”“No, I’m mad you stopped.” Her face flushed. “I meant, ” she tried to rephrase, “I’m mad you left the way you did.

Darkness does not leave without the light to chase it away. You need to have spiritual strength to pull you through the rough times.

It is very creditable when a woman gets into politics. She does this at the expense of responsibilities toward her home and family and should be lauded for this.

Drill your soldiers well, and give them a pattern yourself.

Either a beast or a god.

I don't think I've ever played the Olympia before, but I'm not totally sure.

The only way my head was going truly somewhere else was to travel to a different life and not a different airport.

Who is the most favored of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures.

Adding wings to caterpillars does not create butterflies. It creates awkward and dysfunctional caterpillars. Butterflies are created through transformation.