When you know better you do better.

We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.

I do like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them. But I like - if somebody is going to come into my house and I have not put out the welcome mat, I want to stop them.

I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody's ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the 'n' word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren't pretty or they weren't rich or they weren't clever.

Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise.

Listen to some good poetry. You see? It keeps us from thinking we are only what our blatant appetites describe us as.