It's terrible feeling like an eligible bachelor but no women seeming to agree with you.
We have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries.
Capitalism can be helpful, but it can also be destructive when it's used by huge enterprises worldwide for the sale of weapons.
The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart. You just have to open up your heart and not be afraid to get them out.
When we sing, our hearts can lift and fly, over the troubled waters and over the years.
I had sold my soul for pleasure.
I always sang when I was little and my father, who was a great influence on me, also had a wonderful voice. He and my mother really encouraged me to sing and play the piano. They were always very supportive.
Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he’s far down enough (down where I have been and am rising from, I am really saying), he can’t afford self-doubt and he can’t let other people’s opinions, even a father’s, keep him from writing.
Every African-American I know has two faces. There's the face that we have for ourselves and the face we put on for white America for the places we have to get to.
The surface of things gives enjoyment, their interiority gives life.
I've always been interested in writing from the perspective of an outsider.