I have a cultured manner of speaking.

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.

You don’t influence people by commanding them. When you are doing that, you are a manipulator and not a leader.

Oh my dear! I think about you always and miss you forever.

i believed that imagination is stronger than knowledge, sometimes that dreams are more powerful than fact, stronger dreams may seized peoples heart with full of amore/love

✵ When I first met you there was a garden growing from a black hole in my mind. ✵

I probably hold more town halls than any member of Congress.

A great cause of evil in the world is that men seldom think themselves criminal if they offer the same injustice to others that has been successfully practiced on themselves.

...history has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines.

Once you face your fear, nothing is ever as hard as you think.

The financial education taught in schools is funded and taught by the big banks and corporations. It's like having the cat train the mice.

I always drew. I don't remember a time when I didn't draw. And I actually drew comics from the age of maybe ten through twelve.