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I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.

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Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.

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I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!

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It's not even about black and white anymore, because so many people are from mixed backgrounds and mixed ethnicities, and it's just a great time to be able to pull all that together.

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It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.
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The way I define 'intelligent design' is that when people started out, we wanted to make sense of the world we lived in, so we created stories about how things worked.

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One thing about 'Star Wars' that I'm really proud of is that it expands the imagination. That's why I like the 'Star Wars' toys.

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I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn't care what kind of movies I made.

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You will find in me a middle aged man with a career behind me sufficiently brilliant to enable me to talk about many things interestingly; and I am not an unkindly soul, I believe.

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I live in the spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk about, when I lie down and when I rise up. And the answers are always coming.

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Then she had doubts about the reality of her situation and wondered if her imminent departure was not the illusion of a dream.

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I love to write jokes and that's all I think about.

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Looking deeper into African way of life, it wasn't religious; it was spiritual. When you go into spiritualism, spiritualism will teach you about virtues, how to be patient, humble and kind.

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Africans should be talking and ask questions, like why does America and Russia have the right to veto votes? These countries talk about democracy and yet are not democratic themselves.

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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.

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If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.

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I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.
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There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

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For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art.

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You write about what you know.

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I'm really only happy when I'm on stage. I just feed off the energy of the audience. That's what I'm all about - people and laughter.

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I keep the drafts of each poem in color-coded folders. I pick up the folders according to how I feel about that color that day.

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Actually I walk around with the Emmy wherever I go, but I'm very casual about it.

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You should care for your staff, ask them questions, find out about their families and if you ask me, I’ll say send them personalized SMS on a daily basis thanking them for all they are doing to grow your business, you’ll be shocked.

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I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.

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If I was going onstage, of course I would talk about it. How could I not?

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I have reservations about everything I do.

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I never make my mind up about anything at all, until it's over and done with.

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The truth about any man can only be calculated by the sum of everything that has been said about him.

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You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.

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I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.

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Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It's only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.

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I need to tell the world what I'm about, my nature, because not doing so would be teaching my children how to lie. I didn't want it to be.

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Every day, the approach to life changes. And that's what music is all about to me.

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Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

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Election year, thats when politicians become ACTORS, we’ll see how humble they’ll get, we’ll see how getting into POWER is all they care about, they will do anything. Come to your doorstep with oil & rice for your vote (with cameras) off course to win points.

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One day soon, they will write about Us.

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This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.

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There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.

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I've performed in China, France, New Delhi, and Indianapolis, and everybody just allows themselves to go at it and have a good time. I think that's what I'm doing through music. It's not about 'I'm from here and you're from there.' It's about unity.

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When I think of CeeLo Green, I think about previous collaborations, like 'Tears of Joy.'

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When you listen to records like 'Foreclosure,' that's like me sitting in a room by myself just rapping about things that's running across my mind and things that have been bothering me.

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I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit my head, there will be no one to make the phone call. But who wants to think about that disaster, I'd prefer not to.

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If we care about universal principles such as freedom, democracy and the rule of law, we cannot leave them to the care of market forces; we must establish some other institutions to safeguard them.

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We can speak of the triumph of capitalism in the world, but we cannot yet speak about the triumph of democracy. There is a serious mismatch between the political and the economic conditions that prevail in the world today.

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Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

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If we carry this line of argument to its logical conclusion, the meaning of life consists of the flaws in one's conceptions and what one does about them. Life can be seen as a fertile fallacy.

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I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.

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I was a girl and became a woman. Something about having the freedom at home to be in the position I wanted, to have the people I wanted, was empowering.

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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

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