“You can stay young as long as you learn.”

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Fortune befriends the bold.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.

We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.

Hope never stops at all.

The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more.

You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.

The brain is wider than the sky.

The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study.

Poor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

We don’t have education, we have inspiration; if I was educated I would be a damn fool.

Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to be educated.

International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn’t go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief.

No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.