God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America.
Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
Until we are all free, we are none of us free.
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of exiles.
Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain.
Once you become dedicated to a cause, personal security is not the goal. What will happen to you personally does not matter. My cause, my race, is worth dying for.
The value of the television network is partly tradition, serving as a navigation device and as a brand. Research shows that people do know and understand ABC as a brand, like Disney.
Why did God invent economists? To make weathermen feel good about themselves.
I've had too many experiences in my life of being the first woman in some damned occupation.