To be without a dog is worse than being without a song.

Until you have heard the whippoowill, either nearby or in the fain - distance, you have not experienced summer night.

When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.

Destiny has a constant passion for the incongruous.

How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?

When you cheer for the erosion of Dzhokhar Tsarnaevs rights, you're cheering for the erosion of your own.

We can practice tolerance while still holding true to cultural values that protect the institution of marriage as a union between only a man and a woman.

Domestic work, is, after all, both tedious and repetitive, and it is not surprising that most women and all men avoid as much of it as possible.

Everybody in the world wants the same thing...to be needed...a job that he/she can do well...to love somebody...Everybody...There's no mystery.

It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.

I see a poem as a multi-coloured strip behind peeling plaster, in separate, shining fragments.

America is not the world.