It is a rare woman who can overcome her desire to remain pretty and allow herself to become beautiful.
Why should poetry have to make sense?
The best thing in life is to go ahead with all your plans and your dreams, to embrace life and to live everyday with passion, to lose and still keep the faith and to win while being grateful. All of this because the world belongs to those who dare to go after what they want. And because life is really too short to be insignificant.
Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!
. . . The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in; machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity, more than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities life will be violent and all will be lost.
More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness
So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and. . . Wanda Sykes and John Legend. . . we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.
You may have created my past and screwed up my present, but you have no control over my future.
You are giving a little man a biscuit to eat, and you put a barrel of flour more taxes on top of his head to carry.
I foresee great refinements in the field of short-pulse microwave signaling, whereby several simultaneous programs may occupy the same channel, in sequence, with incredibly swift electronic communication. [. . . ] Short waves will be generally used in the kitchen for roasting and baking, almost instantaneously.