You will be able to do great things when you know and truly understand that all you really have and can control is your own life. Everything else is second to that.”~ShirLee McGarry~ 06/12/2010

There are a thousand excuses for failure but never a good reason, "-Mark Twain

poems are small moments of enlightenment

A student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is worth while to continue her studies. I invariably refuse such requests.

When I do an hour-and-a-half show, if I don't improvise 20 minutes worth of new material each night, I feel I've let myself down.

People aren't going to support an artist just because they have an audio file. They have to feel a real connection.

I know that there is still a lot of bitterness and anger, and arguably justifiably so, when you think about how brutal slavery was and what its brutal legacy still is.

Through the cold time she holds me with evergreen devotion she bears up my whiteness.

Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a 'me too' attitude while impressing evokes a 'so what' attitude

I tried to be a boy, I tried to be a girl, I tried to be a mess.

Every tiny part of us cries out against the idea of dying, and hopes to live forever.

Many people in management are being paid to produce waste.