If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET.
Your smile lights my way through life, and keeps me warm inside. It reminds me that people are good, especially when their snide.
The thing to try and keep in mind, no matter what the day, is there is always something good, to give thanks to God in prayer.
If you find something helpful to give you a hand, allow it to assist you, hands down!
Setting goals is good to do, to make your dreams come true for you.
In every situation, no matter what first appears. Find the good that is always there, and change that fear to cheer.
Send a drop of kindness, and see a happy face.
Illuminated by the same joyful curiosity and erudition, lyric writing, and plain love of life that made a classic of Archie Carr's The Windward Road.
It is an odd fact that what we now know of the mental and emotional life of infants surpasses what we comprehend about adolescents. . . . That they do not confide in us is hardly surprising. They use wise discretion in disguising themselves with the caricatures we design for them. And unfortunately for us, as for them, too often adolescents retain the caricatured personalities they had merely meant to try on for size.
I think different musical collaborators bring out different qualities in my songs and I like that.
To not be afraid in our world is the message that doesn't derive from reason, but maybe from this mysterious capacity given to humans which we call--not without a little embarrassment--faith.