One of the biggest things that I took from playing Kunta Kinte was where his strength came from in knowing where he was from.
I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
He was like a real dad, you know. We used to sit down with guitars and mess around.
I've been in 127 meets since.
I believe Aids is the most important issue we face, because how we treat the poor is a reflection of who we are as a people.
It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it.
In a world where there's so much bad stuff that's happening, we need some good stuff, too.
As a new ball bowler, it's my job to stick to the basics.
I think so many women allow themselves to be defined by somebody else's narrative.
That last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal honour out of it but I was a witness to it.
I think the digital camera would record that information too fast for me.
Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
Charles James was a dear friend of mine when I was a little boy - 17, 18. He was mad as a hatter. I had no idea how famous he was.
A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.
As a child, I was taught that you can achieve, and you can do anything you want.
Below the navel there is neither religion nor truth.
A clear conscience laughs at false accusations.
The winner has many friends, the loser has good friends.
A fool's tongue is long enough to cut his own throat.
Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
When the sky falls we'll all catch larks.
He that is warm thinks all so.
Silence was never written down.
If you would shoot a general, shoot his horse first.
With money, a dragon - without it, a worm.
Silence is the voice of complicity.
Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old yours will be new.
If the mountain won't come to mohammed, mohammed must go to the mountain.
Before telling secrets on the road, look in the bushes.
The eye that sees all things else, sees not itself.
