Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together.

Ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter.

I hope that, reading 'Rosa,' people will remember their own family and friends and talk about what they did and did not do.

Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come.

Nina Simone's music is incredibly honest. That's like saying, "Why does Jesus' word still stay around?" It's incredibly honest and it's good.

School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.

Mistakes are a fact of life. If you are willing to be wrong then you have earned the right to be right.