May my mind be clear and my heart pure.

May the ink of your thoughts never dry.

We aim to bemen who’ll makeour mothers proud, but we end upmaking them cry, and are onlyslightly betterthan our fathers, at best

To live is to suffer to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement.

Everyone knows Spiderman is my favorite superhero of all time. My favorite supervillain? George W. Bush.

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.

Mama, Mama, put me to bed I won’t make it home, I’m already half-dead I met an Invalid, and fell for his art He showed me his smile, and went straight for my heart.

Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up.

I never let prejudice stop me from what I wanted to do in this life.

Man is the nearest approach to Brahman.