All I wanted, even when I hated you most, was some poor, barren, parched excuse to love you. But you only gave me riddles.
Blaming destiny is a poor out for those who don't reach desired destinations.
The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
We'd all like to be taken for what we'd like to be.
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
One who never asks either knows everything or nothing.
There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.
During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs.
According to [Maxine Hong] Kingston, the prose writer is "a workhorse. "
Peace, unity and harmony!
What do we do about climate change bearing down upon us?