I feel like this is a feminist issue and is going to be a part of a feminist conversation, and I wanted images of women of color in that conversation - feminism historically has left us out.

Specifically for black women, our images and our bodies in the media and in history have been so hypersexualized.

Depending on where you live and how you travel - whether you drive or bus or whatever - your experiences may be different. But I think that theme will be the same.

Stop telling women to smile.

I am primarily an oil painter and a studio painter, so originally I was going to do an oil painting.

We gain knowledge from education we gain wisdom from knowledge and experience.

If people doubt you, then you made progress from "who cares?

Werewolves never joke about age, ” he said solemnly.“Why not?”Connor shrugged, a smile teasing his lips. “I dunno, ” he finally admitted. “I just thought it sounded good.

My brain as the engine, with thoughts trailing to the caboose, on a one-track mind we keep going forward.

If you had the power to destroy the world, would you do so?

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas

The problem with golf is I have to deal with a humiliation factor.

Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.

Every time something slips through the cracks, the cracks get bigger.

When one's not writing poems - and I'm not at the moment - you wonder how you ever did it. It's like another country you can't reach.