I have a rendezvous with life.

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.

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.

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

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.

We were not made to eternally weep.

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

The first step to going somewhere is to begin.

See. I told you I would get that boy to the alter eventually. All I had to do was pretend I was a loon.

The ESPYS are about appreciating moments in sports and not looking down on it because it's maybe not your favorite athlete or your favorite team.

People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.

I like the fact that there is challenge.

I'm at the halfway point of shooting .

Free will and consciousness is an illusion, and the self is a complex of memes.

Unless the gods deceive my mind , That man is forging fetters for himself.

The real hope is not in something we think we can do, but in God, who is making something good out of it in some way we cannot see.

People of ze wurl, relax!