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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street. ”
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. ”
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. ”
Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors. ”
My friend, Zachary Throne, was playing a gig with Lemmy and the Upsetters. Knowing of our shared love of Motorhead, Zach called me up and invited me to the rehearsal. ”
My wife married me when the odds were that I'd be a house-painting bouncer for the rest of my days. She has stuck by me through that with nothing but love and support. ”
My daughter doesn't love me because I'm on TV, she loves me because I'm her dad. ”
Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul. ”
All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda. ”
It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. ”