When a child is gifted, people try to help that child.

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

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

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

Life was full of so many possibilities - why should you spend even one day of it being bored?

I cannot give up chasing after happiness simply because there might be pain down the road.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Every day your memory grows dimmer - it doesn't haunt me like it did before.

There's usually a few people who are like, "Say... what would that look like on our channel?" Interest can be expressed without directly expressing interest.

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn't see any rock & roll bands.

I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have a baby.

You have to be the parent; you can't be their friend.

One has to strive for a very open liberal society.