If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.

I do not understand why any poet or writer would run for office; that's a different sense of who you are. I'm just a poet. I am as truthful as I can be. That makes me an artist. I heed the people; I do not lead the people.

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.

We need to make sure our children travel to see things. Not necessarily long distances but at least out of the neighborhood. On a train. A boat. An airplane.

Everybody that loves freedom loves Harriet Tubman because she was determined not only to be free, but to make free as many people as she could.

I am honest; I try to be truthful. I like people and wish us well. We are not always deserving of our own best wishes.

I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk between the raindrops.