Not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.
Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others.
Those faces you see every day on the streets were not created entirely without hope: be kind to them: like you they have not escaped.
There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.
I only want sweet peace and kindliness when I awaken – but there’s always some finger pointing, telling me some terrible deed I committed during the night. It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.
American women drove hard bargains and the ended up looking the worst for it. The few natural American women left were mostly in Texas and Louisiana.
That’s when I first learned that it wasn’t enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.
It was a joy! Words weren’t dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened to you.
I have been treated better than I should have been – not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women.
In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.
News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens.
A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. And the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. Your life is your life. Know it while you have it.
Capitalism has survived communism. Now, it eats away at itself.
If you can’t write the next line, well, you’re dead. The past doesn’t matter.
Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
Before my death I hope to obtain my life.
I didn’t have any friends at school, didn’t want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.
If you are going to try, go all the way or don’t even start. If you follow it you will be alive with the gods. It is the only good fight there is.