I love Canada, and I dated someone who was Canadian a few years ago, and she brought me into a deeper understanding of the greatness of the culture.

I'm not against wealth; I just think everybody should have it, same as health.

The poet is like the earth's shadow. The sun moves, and the poet writes something down.

Poetry always, always, always is a key piece of democracy.

I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me.

I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off their back. And I've also found people that won't give you a piece of bread if you're starving to death.

They which have no hope of a life to come, may extend their griefs for the loss of this, and equal the days of their mourning with the years of the life of man.

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.