The universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and the whole web quivers.

I can hardly wait for tomorrow, it means a new life for me each and every day.

Be what you are. Give What is yours to give. Have Style. Dare.

We have to learn how to live with our frailties. The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed.

The poem comes in the form of a blessing, like rapture breaking on the mind.

You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.

I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was, though some principle of being abides, from which I struggle not to stray.

What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

The poem in the head is always perfect. Resistance begins when you try to convert it into language.

Deftly they opened the brain of a child, and it was full of flying dreams.

I want to write poems that are natural, luminous, deep, spare. I dream of an art so transparent that you can look through and see the world.

In the future, as in the present, as in the past, black people will build many new worlds.This is true. I will make it so. And you will help me.

Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.

There's only one thing to do in crisis like this - SLEEP ON IT!Garfield, the cat.

Capitalism and socialism are tools. Each have pros and cons. For each task, use the one that makes the most sense.

We had enough quite enough snobbery in this world without exporting it to the hereafter.

From my point of view, things don't have to change to get better. Things are fantastic.

I think every group of black guys should have at least one white guy in it.

I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against.

I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.