We need more radicalism among us before we can speak as becomes a suffering, oppressed, and persecuted people.

Color is made to obscure the brightest endowments, to degrade the fairest character, and to check the highest and most praiseworthy aspirations.

Where is the man, who, if asked to become a slave, would not hurl back the offer indignantly in the teeth of the oppressor?

Judicious mothers will always keep in mind that they are the first book read, and the last put aside, in every childs library.

The world can't die. Many generations have thought the world was dying. But it was only their world which was dying.

How is it possible, I think, to change so much and not be able to change anything at all?

I've never recorded anything I didn't like.

Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.

She took a leap of faith and grew her wings on the way down.

If you are lucky enough to be successful, you get drawn further in and you stop paying attention to the stuff that matters.

Perhaps history is a thing that would stop happening if God held His breath, or could be imagined as turning away to think of something else.

I think for all the women who are working parents it's difficult to balance your work-life and your home-life. You make obvious sacrifices because you really just want to be with your family.

Will there be any bartenders up there in Heaven, will the pubs never close?

A lot of poems seem, in some sense, to pull the outside world into the interior. They aren't perhaps emotion recollected in tranquillity but perception recollected in interiority.