First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
I was the life and she was the soul of every party.
For the yesterdays and todays, and the tomorrows I can hardly wait for - Thank you.
Believe me, when you die, it's everybody else's but your problem
Nobody's life is filled with perfect little moments. And if it were, they wouldn't be perfect little moments. They would just be normal. How would you ever know happiness if you never experience downs?
. . . all people needed was time and then they could figure most things out of themselves.
People forget they have options. And they forget that those things really don't matter. They should concentrate on what they have and not what they don't have.
I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture.
Everybody is waiting for the end to come, but what if it already passed us by? What if the final joke of Judgment Day was that it had already come and gone and we were none the wiser? Apocalypse arrives quietly; the chosen are herded off to heaven, and the rest of us, the ones who failed the test, just keep on going, oblivious. Dead already, wandering around long after the gods have stopped keeping score, still optimistic about the future.
If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul
School is the path, not the point.