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Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires.
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.
When I get older, I will be stronger They’ll call me freedom, just like a Wavin’ Flag
Laziness is the one divine fragment of a godlike existence left to man from paradise.
Life is like an elevator. Up and down, just make sure you get off on the right floor.
Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.
You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts.
Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.
The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.
When a man's hand touches the hand of a woman, they both touch the heart of eternity.
Qualities of Good Citizens... is to admire what others have created in love and faith
Arise from sleep, old cat, And with great yawns and stretchings... Amble out for love
When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain.
Every thought sounds like a footfall, Till a thought like a boot kicks down the wall.
With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks.
ingratitude is the necessary consequence of receiving favors of which we are ashamed.
Life You have been good to me.... You have not made yourself too dear to juggle with.
Popcorn-can cover / screwed to the wall / over a hole / so the cold / can't mouse in.
We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
Je vis, je meurs; je me br u" le et me noie. I live, I die; I am on fire and I drown.
Human life lay foul before men's eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion's weight.
Things stand apart so far and differ, that What's food for one is poison for another.
I was eventually to become one person, gathered up maybe, during a pause, at a comma.
I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don't hate Jews.
We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
But the adjectives change,” said Jimmy. “Nothing’s worse than last year’s adjectives.
Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.
Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.
We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves.
If we can't be cordial to these creatures' fleece, I think that we deserve to freeze.
In a world that lives like a fist mercy is not more than waking with your hands open.
It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure
In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that.
In the glare of your mind, be modest. And beholden to what is tactile, and thrilling.
Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water - A deep resonance.
I think all poetry is accessible in a certain sense if you spend enough time with it.
Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
Try making a poem as if it were a table, clear and solid, standing there outside you.
The mind is free, whate'er afflict the man, A King's a King, do Fortune what she can.
Donald Trump has taken the Peter Principle to unprecedented heights. Or is it depths?
Being fetishized because of my skin? I've definitely encountered that wall of people.
The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.
The thousands small birds of January in their smooth soaring cloud finding the trees.
Great is the rose That challenges the crypt, And quotes milleniums Against the grave.
The world must be romanticized. In this way the originary meaning may be found again.
The world stretches before me, the vast world of the big, the little, and the medium.
Senescence begins And middle-age ends The day your descendants Outnumber your friends
The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.