You don't have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going. Babies don't walk the first time they try, but eventually they get it right
Very little of my time is spent thinking about poetry, except the time I spend in class.
Lizzie Harris's Stop Wanting is an unflinching book about a girlhood filled with violence, doubt, vulnerability, and loss. These gorgeously crafted and hauntingly memorable poems are a bleak place full of life, prayer, and the kind of answers only poems like these can provide.
I love food too much - not because I'm fat but because it's so consumptionistic, etc.
I HATE HALLOWEEN. This makes me VERY unpopular.
I don't remember ever dressing up for Halloween but I must have. I do not like dressing up at all.
I do not like it when other people dress up. I like everyone to be THEMSELVES.
I think that every individual is a microcosm of the culture that they're born into. They reflect the anxieties, insecurities, and strengths of that culture. I'm also American and I reflect on what it's like to be an American in the 21st century.
The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.
Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.
Anybody can go onstage and be dirty. You have to be funny, that's the key. You can say anything as long as it's funny. You can't take it too seriously up there. And people coming to see you can't take it too seriously.