There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.

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

Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.

The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.

But prayer isn't asking God to do what we want. Prayer is asking God to what is right.

Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.

Becoming internally empowered shifts a person's center of gravity from external to internal- a mark of spiritual passage.

People in Italy seem to be very capable of singing along with 'Wish You Were Here' perfectly, yet it's hard to get someone in the street who speaks english.

I've got about eight pairs of shoes, and that's it.

This is what sexual liberation chiefly accomplishes-it liberates young women to pursue married men.

Always turn to God in the midst of your struggle and view people who offended you as an instruments of divine sovereignty.

It's lonely and cold on the top... lonely and cold.

Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.