I've never really been aware of what is said about me, whether it's positive or negative. I ignore it. I've always had the mind-set: 'No one can challenge me better than myself. '
Lord, forgive me if my need Sometimes shapes a human creed.
The truth is. . . everything counts. Everything. Everything we do and everything we say. Everything helps or hurts; everything adds to or takes away from someone else.
There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.
If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET.
We shall not always plant while others reap
The key to all strange things is in thy heart. . . . My spirit has come home, that sailed the doubtful seas.
Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.
This job's a pain-it's so mundane It sure don't stimulate my brain.
I don't eat vegetables. I only eat food like cheeseburgers, Spam, hot dogs and pizza.
If a single Russian source would come forward, he would be in hot water. And in the United States, what I did appearing at that [Vladimir] Putin press conference was not worth the price.