Quotes about Inspiration

Being free is as difficult and as perpetual — or rather fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good jew or a good Moslem or a good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up in the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK.

Since life is our most precious gift And since it is given to us to live but once, Let us so live that we will not regret

You have no idea what your legacy will be because your legacy is every life you touch.

I've had rainbows in my clouds.

If you're going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can't be erased."-Maya Angelou

Baby, I've been thinking and now I am sure. You are the greatest woman I've ever met.

This book is dedicated to MY SON, GUY JOHNSON, AND ALL THE STRONG BLACK BIRDS OF PROMISE who defy the odds and gods and sing their songs

Some decide that happiness and glee are the same thing, they are not. When we choose happiness we accept the responsibility to lighten the load of someone else and to be a light on the path of another who may be walking in darkness.

During these years in Stamps, I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare. He was my first white love.

Try to be a rainbow in someones cloud There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Although I enjoyed and respected Kipling, Poe, Butler, Thackeray and Henley, I saved my young and loyal passion for Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson and W.E.B. Du Bois' "Litany at Atlanta." But it was Shakespeare who said, "When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes." It was a state with which I felt myself most familiar.