White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.

Daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and I told him I'm gonna beat out my own rhythm.

If you're creating a slave situation, you would almost never bring women. And if we look at Slavery for example, we look at the Greeks and the Romans, right? It was always men. They never brought any women. Because women carry the seeds of the revolution, right? And if you have the men by themselves, then you can do what the French did with the Blackfeet, which is breed them out.

You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.

The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like himself; where once he had "he," he now has "she" and "they.

If you were a pure bolt of fire-cutting the skies I'd touch you-risking my life-not because I'm brave or strong, but because I'm fascinated by what the outcome would be.

Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.