“I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.”

Hope is not found in a way out but a way through.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.

We dance around in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

If you’re looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.

There are tones of voices that mean more than words.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

There are tones of voices that mean more than words.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.

Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

What is done is done for the love of it – or not really done at all.

If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.

First, God does not send people to hell. He simply honors their choice. Hell is the ultimate expression of God’s high regard for the dignity of man. He has never forced us to choose Him, even when that means we would choose Hell.

I finally found out how priests get holy water. They boil the hell out of it.

I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, ‘Get the hell off my property.’

I will tell you one thing, though: I grew like hell from it.

Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.

Come hell or water high you’ll never see me cry this is our last good bye.

You know it’s going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.