It's true. I can do anything and do it well because God loves me. It still humbles me.

Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future.

In today's climate in our country, which is sickened with the pollution of pollution, threatened with the prominence of AIDS, riddled with burgeoning racism, rife with growing huddles of the homeless, we need art and we need art in all forms. We need all methods of art to be present, everywhere present, and all the time present.

Poetry helps my soul escape its encasement.

Laugh...It's the sweetest thing one can do for oneself and one's fellow human beings.

We all have that possibility, that potential and that promise of seeing beyond the seeming.

If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up. I would ask you, mother and father, brother and sister, lovers, mother and daughter, father and son, lift someone. The very idea of lifting someone up will lift you, as well.