“Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.”

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

He did each single thing as if he did nothing else.

Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmas time.

I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

When you drink of the water, don’t forget the spring from which it flows.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Reflect upon your present blessings.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

What greater gift than the love of a cat.

Ask no questions, and you’ll be told no lies.

Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

I’ll be making music ’til the day I die. I’ve done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.

Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.

Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. You can kill one, but another is born. The words are written down, the deed, the date.

That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.

What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?

A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death.