My last defense / Is the present tense.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.

I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.

Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.

I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.

I've probably been spit on more that any person alive outside of, I would say, a member of the prison system.

Life tests us to see our level of endurance.

Are you disappointed with society? If you are, I challenge you to take the first step. I challenge you to look at yourself.

The Bible is our authority in everything it touches. This means the Bible is our guide to show us how to live . . . it is our instructor.

My journey, my life.My life can only be navigated by me.

Compromise is a sign you'll pass on your way to mediocrity.

But if the feelings are mutual, I open my heart without restriction. I’m not afraid to say 'I love you'.

What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage.

Lots of people say it's the song. For me, it's not always the song - there's something bigger: the spirit of an artist.

...this moment... is the only physical reality you have.