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 think that too many strangers were in her [Nina Simone's] life, and not enough people that she knew and loved.

We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.

We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.

The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.

America may not be the best nation on earth, but it has conceived loftier ideals and dreamed higher dreams than any other nation. America is a heterogeneous nation of many different people of different races, religions, and creeds. Should this experiment go forth and prosper, we will have offered humans a new way to look at life; should it fail, we will simply go the way of all failed civilizations.