The United States brags about its political system but the President says one thing during the election something else when he takes office something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.

Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.

It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.

I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could but it takes devotion and talent.

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point life itself takes over again.

A theology should be like poetry which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high.

Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.

I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the greatest goal of all mankind. And the same is true of labor and the great democratic sections of our population.