wealth means power: the power to subdue, to crush, to exploit, the power to enslave, to outrage, to degrade.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

There's never been a good government.

A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

I used to be afraid of the dark until I learned that I am light and the dark is afraid of me.

When I talk about God, I'm not necessarily talking about religion. To me, God is the energy and light that each of us carries.

People fall forward to success.

I think education has a bigger impact on the lives of people than absolutely anything else.

When an Indian fights, he only shoots to kill.

My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.

I don't aspire, but I would be very happy if one of my poems suddenly offered someone a shady rest stop, a breather in our interminable march under the murderous, scorching heat of the superfluous.

I'm very career-driven, so my focus and my energy has been into that.