I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.

The largest uniqueness of yours is where you are special and differ from others

If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.

I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.

If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.

I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.

The devastation of neoliberalism is so multi-fold, whether it's violence against women or desperate economic inequality or the destruction of the planet.

Water is the most critical resource issue of our lifetime and our children's lifetime. The health of our waters is the principal measure of how we live on the land.

According to one critic, my works looked like scraped billboards. I went to look at the billboards and decided that more billboards should be scraped.

Indeed, baptism is a vow, a sacred vow of the believer to follow Christ. Just as a wedding celebrates the fusion of two hearts, baptism celebrates the union of sinner with Savior.

When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was.