If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.

Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.

White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.

If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die.

Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.

Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.

There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.

I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.'

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.

We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.

We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.

A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is; once you do, you can learn about the new world you're in and take advantage of it.

Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.

For most of my life, I've thought of myself as pretty cool.

Hip-hop is a cultural expression - it's embracing.

I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.

I had a really nice childhood; I had great parents. I earned my allowance by washing dishes, and in the summer I earned my allowance by working in daddy's garden.

I spend a lot of time learning about bird watching.

If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.

Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come.

Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together.

There are things you stand up for because it's right.

We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.

Black love is black wealth.

Black Poetry is not for Black People...it is for everybody

Deal with yourself as an individual worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.

Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

We love because it is the only true adventure.

The unwillingness to try is worse than any failure.

Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.

If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

Well, after I had the heart attack, it was a very simple choice. What the doctor told me I did and I did it religiously. I ate nothing but lean turkey breast or chicken breast or a piece of fish that was very lean. I mean I stayed away from everything.

From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.

We believe that the European Union is facing a truly historic choice.

If you're a sports fan you realize that when you meet somebody, like a girlfriend, they kind of have to root for your team. They don't have a choice.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice.

To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain.

We in this Congress have a choice. The American people have a right to exercise a choice on this issue, as to whether our men and women will continue to fight and die in a war based on deception and fantasy, or to start bringing the troops home.

The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it.

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.