As soon as you start mixing up politics and some sort of ethical code in music, you've got it all wrong.
I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.
Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.
If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.
Our government is a bird with two right wings. . . They're devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism.
I was on television a couple of years ago and the reporter asked me, "How does it feel being on mainstream media? It's not often poets get on mainstream media. " I said, "Well I think you're the dominant media, the dominant culture, but you're not the mainstream media. The mainstream media is still the high culture of intellectuals: writers, readers, editors, librarians, professors, artists, art critics, poets, novelists, and people who think. They are the mainstream culture, even though you may be the dominant culture. "
Make your mind learn its way around the heart.
Together, we will have one great American future. Our potential is unlimited. We will be one people, under one God, saluting one American flag.
That's the way I look at things - if you focus on the worst case scenario and it happens, you've lived it twice. It sounds like Pollyanna-ish tripe but I'm telling you - it works for me.
Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples' cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world.
Of course it hurt that we could never love each other in a physical way. We would have been far more happy if we had. But that was like the tides, the change of seasons--something immutable, an immovable destiny we could never alter. No matter how cleverly we might shelter it, our delicate friendship wasn't going to last forever. We were bound to reach a dead end. That was painfully clear.