say the words out loud / yes / the ones that make your heart pinch / say them out loud

Actual artists are like mythological creatures, ' she heard herself opine. 'You hear about them, but a sighting's pretty rare.

I don't think that... one gets a flash of happiness once and never again it is there within you and it will come as certainly as death.

Living with a dog is one way to retain something of a child's spirit.

I was trying to pay the bills with poems, and it was easy to memorize my poems, because I'd be riding my bike in California trying to memorize them before going on stage at a poetry lounge.

The social pressure from friend and acquaintance to collude, to not notice racism, can be quite powerful.

Gospel riches are sent to remove our wretchedness, and mercy to remove our misery.

We need to put our good research, our good work, our principles into actionable items whenever we can.

And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents.

My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess.