What is last year's snow to me, Last year's anything? The tree Budding yearly must forget How its past arose or set

The truth is... everything counts. Everything. Everything we do and everything we say. Everything helps or hurts; everything adds to or takes away from someone else.

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.

I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage.

If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET.

What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black Women from whose loins I sprang When the birds of Eden sang?

We shall not always plant while others reap

The key to all strange things is in thy heart..../ My spirit has come home, that sailed the doubtful seas.

My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.

We were not made to eternally weep.

Dame Poverty gave me my name, And Pain godfathered me.

seesth thou a man tha isn't GRATEFUL? He is a GREAT FOOL

I collaborate with people because their music talk to me as much as mine talk to them.

It takes so long to make a record and then it takes so long again to release it.

The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation

I believe in community policing. And, in fact, violent crime is one-half of what it was in 1991.

They're my favorite two words these days: Oscar reject.

At Euro '92 itself, we bowed out to the eventual winners, Denmark, in our final group match.

You meet new people. We just spent two hours with people we didn't know before, just talking about the Badgers.

... there’s also nothing noble about being fearless. How much do you wanna bet the last man standing in a battle is usually the biggest fool of all?” - Paul Hudson

Someone like Russell Crowe is questioned for his passion for music, and whatever he does, music is just in his heart and soul. All he wants to do is music.