As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can.

As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.

Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.

Our problem mostly in our abuse of each other and the planet is greed. Just the rampant, incredible greed that people have partly because they're empty and they can't get enough because they're - you know, it's that Buddhist thing about the hungry ghost with the little mouth and the big belly.

Just because I don't harass it like some peoples us know don't mean I ain't got religion.

It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand and lie about who you actually are.

That is scary, when you consider what we're doing to children all over the planet. They're the ones who are truly being terrorized by all the madness adults are perpetrating.