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Tonight I feel the stars are out
to use me for target practice. — Yusef Komunyakaa

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid. — Martin Luther

I said that love heals from inside. — Yusef Komunyakaa

I think of language as our first music. — Yusef Komunyakaa

A goddess of dawn
scooted under a zing of barbed wire
to witness your birth. — Yusef Komunyakaa

Now I have beaten a song back into you, rise and walk away like a panther. — Yusef Komunyakaa

I'm turning you into a girl
chasing a butterfly, a she-wolf
on a hilltop, & then back into a woman. — Yusef Komunyakaa

Loveless moments are to be avoided. — Yusef Lateef

External instruments are only extensions of the biological instrument. — Yusef Lateef

See how forgiving - how brave nature is. — Yusef Komunyakaa

So, as you can see and if you reflect on it, awkward headed-females mating with beautifully normal headed-males is a bad idea. — Penny Reid

I don't use simple words. I make games and puzzles with my songs. — Lisa Loeb

Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money. — Gene Tierney

I know you're a step down from superhero, Hawk, but seriously?"
He grinned. "You think I'm a step down from superhero? — Kristen Ashley

Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process. — Yusef Komunyakaa

Thanksgiving comes after Christmas. — Peter Kreeft

I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem. — Yusef Komunyakaa

Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy. — David Levithan

Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians. — Henry Rollins

I glimpsed Alice in Wonderland.
Her voice smelled like an orange,
though I'd never peeled an orange.
I knocked on the walls, in a circle. — Yusef Komunyakaa

I am this space my body believes in. — Yusef Komunyakaa

If life isn't dangerous, you aren't living it right. — Morgan Stone

The fact is ones own voice is not heard anywhere else. Its a challenge to be yourself. It takes a lot of courage. — Yusef Lateef

Ask God to work faith in you; otherwise you will remain eternally without faith, no matter what you try to do or fabricate. — Martin Luther

I knew life
Began where I stood in the dark,
Looking out into the light. — Yusef Komunyakaa

You can two-time satan
But you can't lick the Holy Ghost. — Yusef Komunyakaa

I see myself as the oldest griot tradition of speaking to truth out here. There's a dark side that people don't even know is there. — Malik Yusef

Whoever said men
hit harder when women
are around, is right.
Word for word,
we beat the love
out of each other. — Yusef Komunyakaa

Foolhearted mindreader,
help us see how
the heart begs,
how fangs of opprobrium
possess our eyes. — Yusef Komunyakaa

I ate mythology & dreamt'
- Yusef Komunyakaa (Blackberries) — Yusef Komunyakaa

We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project. — Yusef Komunyakaa

Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did. — Linus Torvalds

Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism. — Joe Biden

It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction. — Yusef Komunyakaa

We want to do sweaters for dogs and call it 'Bark Jacobs.' If it works, great. If it doesn't, we'll drop it and do something different. — Marc Jacobs

Mentors should be patient, passionate and should not rest until they see a great development on their mentees. — Euginia Herlihy

Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do. — Yusef Komunyakaa

My music is jazz. — Yusef Lateef

Economy is idealism in its most practical form. — Calvin Coolidge