If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.

A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die.

Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.

History is wonderful. We have so much we can learn if we would quit making ideology out of history, and just deal with what happened.

The trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans. I say, the trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans.

God knows it's a sign of a really sick mind to see grown people, adults with responsibilities, wearing class rings.

I appreciate and enjoy my age.