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

She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't.

I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.

Once you know who you are, you don't have to worry anymore.

But nonviolence was never for the oppressor; it was for the oppressed.

I would put books on par with chocolate, because a good book is delicious.

The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said "A civilization is judged only in its decline." That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.