The notion of children being "kindergarten ready" is a bizarre oxymoron. It's like saying you have to know how to play the piano before you can learn how to play the piano.

The sun was hot and bright. A day for fishing, for swimming, for playing tennis and having fun, and they put my Christopher in the ground.

My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.

There is also something called the Legislature. There is something called the press. There is something called people. These are all different players on the stage.

Never expect a loan to a friend to be paid back if you want to keep that friend.

I like to see a home like this, a home connected with people's thoughts and work, things they love.

The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.

Leave it up to me while I be livin' proof, To kick the truth to the young black youth.

If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much - make it greedy, miserable and sick.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

As an artist I have always felt that my task is not to create meaning but to charge the air so that meaning can occur.