Maxine Quotes

Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound

How unlike a dead fish a live fish is.

I think Hillary and Bill are really liberals at heart. I think that, in addition to being liberals, they are very practical. They have made some decisions about what it takes to win.

[Carly Fiorina] can argue it all she wants, but I don't believe that.

Humans are basically good. That's why it takes so much training to march march march kill kill kill kill.

There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they change. If the stories don't change they just die.

I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.

God serves the choosy. They know what to want.

One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth.

... people get confidential at midnight.

I don't have to give [Donald Trump] a chance.

We seem to be always on cusps. Women come out of the burkah, the niqab, purdah, the closet, then go back in again. Of course, what we need do is to value the happy freedom of all beings.

I learned to shoot more accurately because my teachers held the targets.

Cherish your wilderness.

If you use a positive word, the corners of your lips go upward and it makes you smile.

[Maxine Waters] was kind enough to join us here at our studios in Washington, D.C., in advance of women's march in Washington in which she will be participating.

Nature is a catchment of sorrows.

Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and the old buzzard won't be hanging around, underfoot, all weekend.

I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.

Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem.

You must not tell anyone,' my mother said, 'what I am about to tell you.'

People who can comfort the dead can also chase after them to hurt them further-a reverse ancestor worship.

Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.

I'm going home the old way with a light hand on the reins making the long approach.

Women are not supposed to have uteruses, especially in poems.

Sometimes tradition is a way of keeping going.

The tougher the form the easier it is for me to handle the poem, because the form gives permission to be very gut honest about feelings.

It's a funny thing no matter who you are when you purchase a flower or a plant, the first thing you ask is how do I keep this plant and keep it growing beautiful. People need the same concern.

What you have to be, you have to live whatever you do all day long. I always told the artists, every time you're on stage, it's nothing but a dress rehearsal.

All a singer needs is voice and expression anything else you have is an asset to your profession.

[Rex Tillerson] is gonna continue to work on [sanctions lifting]. This is important for him. He was there [in White House] because he negotiated the deal for Exxon with [Vladimir] Putin.

There's a debate among Democrats about how they should approach this new [Donald's Trump] administration.

I have a resolution that I introduced in February. I think there's enough there that we know about the Kremlin and about Putin to be concerned about whether or not there was collusion.

[Rex] Tillerson is there to get these sanctions [against Russia] lifted. I believe it. Just watch him!

I was very impressed with that that women have come here to say that we're going to fight you, Donald Trump.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

[On social climbing:] Everything that goes up must come down.

I really do believe that much of what coming out of Donald Trump's mouth was a play from Vladimir Putin's playbook.

You're too young to decide to live forever.

[To the editor of the Harlan, Kentucky, Daily Enterprise, as a kindergartener:] I know everything that goes on in this town, and if you give me a job so will you.

Daughters-in-law lived with their husbands' parents, not their own; a synonym for marriage in Chinese is "taking a daughter-in-law.

Adultery is extravagance.

I don't think of color, I think that anyone wants a master of their skill and be successful knows no color.

I'm not against anybody having gone [to Donald Trump's inauguration], but, for me, it was not the right place to be.

You can't eat straight A's.

Love is like a roller coaster. When it's good, you don't want to stop and when it's not... you want to throw up.

All I'm looking for is a guy who'll do what I want, when I want, for as long as I want, and then go away. Or wait nearby, like a Dust Buster, charged up and ready when needed.

The key to a nice-looking lawn is a good mower. I recommend one who is muscular and shirtless.

To look at possibility is to be free.

My favorite birthday game is Pin the Cleanup on the guests.