Let me tell so much truth. I want to tell the truth in my work. The truth will lead me to all.

I am convinced that most people do not grow up ... our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias.

My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.

If you have a napkin, you need another napkin to receive back all the blessings you'll get. And you keep giving. Then you need a towel to receive all the gifts. And you continue giving. Finally, you need a tablecloth. And you continue giving - not stupidly, but you give. And when you give, you finally have to move out and get a second house, and a third house and a fourth.It is a no - fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it.

I think a nap or a rest overnight is great. But who needs three days of rest? Please! The second day, you might die.

Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, 'I'd like to write about that.' Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.