They say rubbers mainly for perverts. Dont know why. Think its very practical, actually. I mean, you spill anything on it and it just comes off. I suppose that could be why the perverts like it.

There are those that can and those that can't, which catagory are you???

In most families, care-giving becomes the woman's responsibility. While care-giving can enrich you, it can also deplete you if you don't have support or make time for self care.

We would not have been a successful family without my father and stepfather, who were working-class men with better dreams for their children. We just wore them out.

Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.

I'm fond of observing how obsession is the most durable form of intellectual capital.

All my friends were in the park smoking weed and getting pregnant. I didn't want to be the young black girl having a baby, a baby's father, being on welfare. That wasn't going to be my story.

What cannot letters inspire? They have souls; they can speak; they have in them all that force which expresses the transports of the heart.

If one will fix his heart in such a way and assist the world and its people, he will have the devotion of the men who see and hear him.

I haven't aged into a character actor. I'm an old leading man.

The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.