I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.

Be careful what you swallow. Chew!

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.

As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.

When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.

Each body has its art.

The music is in minors.