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"Show your infectious smile and infect everyone with joy."

"Motivation revives the soul."
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"I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things."

"Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine."

"The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of things to different people. I think we're redefining it now."

"People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable."

"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!"

"It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate."

"Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure."

"My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends."
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