A white face goes with a white mind. Occasionally a black face goes with a white mind. Very seldom a white face will have a black mind. |
Ain't they got no shame |
And he said: you pretty full of yourself ain't chu. So she replied: show me someone not full of Herself and I'll show you a hungry person. |
Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste |
don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak. |
His headstone said "Free at last, Free at last" - But death is a slave's freedom - We seek the freedom of free men - And the construction of a world - Where Martin Luther King could have lived - and preached non-violence |
I hope that, reading 'Rosa,' people will remember their own family and friends and talk about what they did and did not do. |
I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try. |
I resent people who say writers write from experience. Writers don't write from experience, though many are hesitant to admit that they don't. I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy. |
If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice |
If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it. |
If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else. |
If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else. |
It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend. |
it's a sex object if you're pretty and no love or love and no sex if you're fat |