"I go from locker to locker, pretending the guys are here. You know, give them a little bit of a pep talk. It must be working, because we haven't lost a game yet."

“But when’s the last time you took a chance? Or didn’t do what someone else expected of you? Or did something you really wanted to, even though you probably shouldn’t have?”

“The poem is a plank laid over the lion's den.”

Source : James K. Baxter, John Edward Weir (1979). “Collected poems”, Oxford University Press, USA

“If I choose this platform [The Black Arts Movement] and God validates this platform, I feel like we have to use the hyper-reality to get people closer to [actual] reality. Right now is so special because it's the information age and people just want to be aware and there's no better way of doing that than through art.”

Source : Source: www.ebony.com

“I belong to the petit bourgoiusie somehow, because of my parents.”

“I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well.”

“When two people become entangled, one person will conform to the energy of the other person. When one of them is a healer whose cells are vibrating at a higher level, the client's cells become entangled, and their energy is lifted. That's why that old saying, "physician heal thyself," is so important, even though most don't understand it: If the physician's energy is going to influence or, in scientific terms, "entrain" the patient's, the doctor's must be higher.”

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“The fact that I'm going to be unsuccessful at times is pretty well-balanced by the fact that I'm going to be successful at others.”

“You've got to gamble every once in a while in a round of golf. I'm not afraid to screw up.”