One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.

I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don't pay attention 'cause it probably has floated into somebody else's head.

Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.

I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.