We all denounce bores, but while we do so, let us remember that there is nobody who isn't a bore to somebody.

When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things far outside their own self-centeredness.

Language helps form the limits of our reality.

Language is not neutral. It is not merely a vehicle which carries ideas. It is itself a shaper of ideas.

When women are supposed to be quiet, a talkative woman is a woman who talks at all.

This monopoly over language is one of the means by which males have ensured their own primacy, and consequently have ensured the invisibility or 'other' nature of females.

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.

Men who teach only men are called scholars. Women who teach only women are called political agitators.

When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.

Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues.

Allow love, to illuminate the unknown pathways that are destined - to be traveled.

Our career is a dream. I mean, we get to act, travel around the world, and meet cool people. What's not to love!

Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.

I don't believe I have a good enough friend to give a three-footer

Sometimes it's easier to see the madness in others---but we also have to see it in ourselves.

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

I'd rather a young black actor read about success as opposed to how tough it was. I get these roles because I can act and that's it. Hopefully that's it.

No matter how far apart we are, we are all under and looking at the same sky.

It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.