We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.
For most of my life, I've thought of myself as pretty cool.
If you know what you're talking about, or if you feel that you do, the reader will believe you.
If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.
There are things you stand up for because it's right.
Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.
Hip-hop is a cultural expression - it's embracing.
I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.
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.
We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.
I appreciate and enjoy my age.
You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.
I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.'
The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.
Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.
I had a really nice childhood; I had great parents. I earned my allowance by washing dishes, and in the summer I earned my allowance by working in daddy's garden.
I'm just totally fascinated by people.
