"Hang yourself, poet, in your own words.Otherwise,..." - Quote by Langston Hughes

“Harriet Tubman lived to see the harvest.”

“Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.”

“To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer - not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.”

“Tis now the twenty-third of march,And this warm sun takes out the starchOf winter's pinafore -Methinks The Very pasture gladly drinksA health to spring, and while it sipsIt faintly smacks a myriad lips.”

“Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.”

“I discover poetry when I was in elementary school and I was so fascinated by it. Because I realised if you get the right amount of syllables and the right amount of words, in the right rhyme scheme and you put it all together. You make words just bounce of a page.”

“I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.”

“The psychotherapist ... tries to help the individual to be himself and to go it alone without giving unnecessary offense to his community, to be in the world (of social convention) but not of the world.”

“The important thing of any time you live in is to be in love yourself. You float above your time then. It's what you want that counts, not what your time wants.”