Discipline is the bedrock of character.
I care because I want you to care about me. I care because I have become aware of my absolute dependency upon you, whoever you are, for the outcome of my social, my democratic experience.
To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.
Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires.
Maybe the purpose of being here, wherever we are, is to increase the durability and occasions of love among and between peoples.
Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.
What's important about poetry in the context of leadership is that most of the time, power has to do with dominance. But poetry is never about dominance. Poetry is powerful but it cannot even aspire to dominate anyone. It means making a connection. That's what it means.
I never thought I was the most beautiful model out there or the most sexy woman, but I was a hard worker
There was a time when I was in this private school and the kids were so conservative and close-minded that it was just appalling.
The common problem, yours, mine, everyone's Is ? not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it could be ? but, finding first What may be, then find how to make it fair Up to our means.
Man is alone in the world, in tremendous eternal isolation. He has no object outside himself; lives for nothing else; he is far removed from being the slave of his wishes, of his abilities, of his necessities; he stands far above social ethics; he is alone. Thus he becomes one and all.