Hostility to youth is the worst vice of the middle-aged.

When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things far outside their own self-centeredness.

Language helps form the limits of our reality.

Language is not neutral. It is not merely a vehicle which carries ideas. It is itself a shaper of ideas.

When women are supposed to be quiet, a talkative woman is a woman who talks at all.

This monopoly over language is one of the means by which males have ensured their own primacy, and consequently have ensured the invisibility or 'other' nature of females.

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.

Men who teach only men are called scholars. Women who teach only women are called political agitators.

When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.

Colonial power, patriarchal power, capitalist power must always and everywhere be battled, because they never, ever quit. (Junot Diaz)

I think that, even if we forget each other, we'll remember in our dreams.

The best Products are customized not standardized.

Dr. Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak.

We are never more like Christ than in prayers of intercession.

We'll organize workers in this movement as long as we're willing to sacrifice. The moment we stop sacrificing, we stop organizing.

Life is like an eternal dance. The movements of the dance are choreographed through your awareness.

The drunkard forfeits man and doth divest All wordly right, save what he hath by beast.

Globalization is not a monolithic force but an evolving set of consequences - some good, some bad and some unintended. It is the new reality.

Cubanas are very strong women. So don't mess with us, don't take us for granted!