I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.
As you know from school, it’s when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you’ve done your best.
I don’t know nothing, I think. And glad of it.
This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways.
I’m sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.
My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.
I’m for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.
You can love yourself spiritually, physically – in almost any way that anybody else can.
I started out as a poet. I’ve always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.
If a person is hit hard enough, even if she stands, she falls.
But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind.
Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.
Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.
Not only will your teachers appear, but they will cook new foods for you.
Be nobody’s darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm.
You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that’s something that we should think about.
As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can.
Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.
She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew the people around her could not respect it.
A grown child is a dangerous thing.