Prouder than a preschooler showin' refrigerator art!

…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future.

Pity me that the heart is slow to learnWhat the swift mind beholds at every turn.

And when he got home he started on Mumma. He hated her then, because in her fatness and untidiness and drabness she reminded him of what he himself was when he was sober.

Happier'n young'uns bustin' outta school fer summer break!

Cheaper'n recyclin' yer nose tissues. --Mema

Then she said, with piteous defiance, "If I could love her, the Good Lord could, and he won't be too hard on an old lady who didn't have an easy life.

If your self-respect's for sale, don't complain when someone tries to bargain.

Confidence is highly erotic.

Never trust a woman hoarding a half-eaten bag of M&M's.

Hip-hop has never had boundaries - the more adventurous it is, the more popular it seems to be.

I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a thrilling encounter, and you can find things.

The worries that are the burden of which the privileged person makes an excuse in dealing with the oppressed person are in fact the worries about preserving his privileged condition.

I know it sounds hard to believe, but habits laid down by our ancestors persist even after the conditions that created those habits have gone away.

That's another interesting thing about music: It can mean anything.

My first sense of myself was as an artist, a painter. I would see a Van Gogh painting and just love it, the more emotional and passionate the more it attracted me.

I see the reports of Anson Hunter's death have been greatly exaggerated... and I trust so are his war stories.

I do like certain kinds of frames for work. That's important.

We rarely think of the air we breathe, yet it is in us and around us all the time. In similar fashion, the presence of God penetrates us, is all around us, is always embracing us.

I don't know what I believe. I think there's a belief system, I'm just not sure what it is.