I'm an island boy, so I love my reggae and soca music.
The fact is that heterosexual sex for most people is in no way free of the power relations between men and women.
To be homeless in America is to live like a fugitive. The destitute are our own native-born "illegals. "
Jesus: a wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist.
Whether you work outside the home or not, never tell them [your children] that being a mommy is your 'job. ' Being a mommy is a relationship, not a profession.
The question is why one should be so inwardly preoccupied at all. Why not reach out to others in love and solidarity or peer into the natural world for some glimmer of understanding? Why retreat into anxious introspection when, as Emerson might have said, there is a vast world outside to explore? Why spend so much time working on oneself when there is so much real work to be done?
we are reaching the point, if we have not passed it already, where the largest public housing program in America will be our penitentiary system.
Some, like Ebenezer Scrooge in Dickens's A Christmas Carol, have a hard time loving anyone, even themselves, because of their selfishness. Love seeks to give rather than to get. Charity towards and compassion for others is a way to overcome too much self-love
I have never dreamt of contesting the Church her right to remain faithful to herself, meaning to the commandments that come from Doctrine. . . but that she expects to impose these commandments upon me who do not have the good fortune of being a believer, trying to pour them into civil law in a way that they become obligatory even to us non-believers, is it right? To me it doesn't seem so.
What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows how to arrange.
The face of the moose is as sad as the face of Jesus.