The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said, 'A civilization is judged only in its decline.' That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.
I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.
I'm just totally fascinated by people.
If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.
A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die.
I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.'
We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.
There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.
A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is; once you do, you can learn about the new world you're in and take advantage of it.
You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.
The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.
We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.
Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.
There are things you stand up for because it's right.
