... in the world, it will be women, mostly colored and poor. women will have to bury children, and support themselves through grief.

Your war drum ain't / louder than this breath.

a woman will tell youevery home she has ever inhabitedhas been broken intostarting with her body

And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.

You can read merely to pass the time, or you can read with an overt urgency, but eventually you will read against the clock.

Others saw in the trend still another instance of a disturbing tendency in the American suburb: the longing for withdrawal, for self-enclosure, for expensive isolation.

The artist does not see things as they are but as he is.

You must originate, and you must sympathize; yon must possess, at the same time, the habit of communicating and the habit of listening. The union is rather rare, but irresistible.

90? 110? You know. It's a Ferrari, baby - you don't do 50 in a Ferrari.

If you are going to win the fight of your life, you can't be afraid to fight.

I am the good girl and I always play the good girl. It's nice to do that.

Friends are like stars, they come and go, but the ones that stay are the ones that glow.

Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.