If it ain't about what's real, what's happenin' right now, it ain't the blues.

Either that information was not believed or inexplicably never passed on to the regional military command. When the attack finally came, Vienamese civilians were defenseless.

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke . . . She will need her sisterhood.

I who was a house full of bowel movement, I who was a defaced altar, I who wanted to crawl toward God could not move nor eat bread.

Women come in all shapes and sizes, and we are what we want to be, not the label that is placed on us.

Everything factual is, in a sense, theory. The blue of the sky exhibits the basic laws of chromatics. There is no sense in looking for something behind phenomena: they are theory.

How much easier is it to be generous than just.

The best basketball announcer is one who allows you to close your eyes.

Mother cow is as useful dead as when she is alive.

And the new day was a great big fish.

The logic of the poet - that is, the logic of language or the experience itself - develops the way a living organism grows: it spreads out towards what it loves, and is heliotropic, like a plant.