“If you want to get your point across, you gotta cuss.”

The kids from the streets don’t want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don’t care if it’s ugly; they just want reality.

Another murder I committed made the front page.

I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.

Movies don’t make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.

The boys in the hood are always hard.

I’m not a registered Republican or Democrat. I don’t even vote.

Get thee behind me Satan, and push me along. I’m kin to the devil.

What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.

A solution to stop gang banging: SNOW!!

Nuthin’ can avoid this shot ’cause it’s hittin’ It’s so cool when you touch it, wear a mitten

I go to correctional facilities and talk to kids there. They have little kids in there who are, like, 12 years old, stealing cars and stuff like that.

I prayed hard and only gradually became aware that this fierce praying was a way of finding prologue and entrance into my own writing. This came as both astonishment and relief. When I thought God had abandoned me,

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.

Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.

To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.

The Love-god inflames more fiercely those he sees are reluctant to surrender.

If we can reawaken that fierce quality in a man, hook it up to a higher purpose, release the warrior within, then the boy can grow up and become truly masculine.

I reject your reality and substitute my own.