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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.

And then they came upon it. It was painted in the most cat-retch shade of beige you ever beheld.

I always feel trepidation at the beginning of every project. I worry about so many things. Time to get it right, the skill to do it justice, the will to finish. I also worry about more mundane things, like what if my computer crashes and I've forgotten to back up the manuscript?

I'm the worst night owl, because I'm a self-loathing night owl who thinks, 'No, I should be getting up early.' It feels unproductive. I must get over that.

We're the Fascist States of America today, not the United States of America, because the corporations are in power.

Ted: A fucking good poem is a weapon. It's-- and not like a-- a popgun or something. - It's a bomb. It's like a bloody big bomb. Sylvia: That’s why they make children learn them in school. They don't want them messing about with them on their own. I mean, just imagine if a sonnet went off accidentally. Boom.

Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.

New Years are so full of Old Year's promises.

I was an English major in college!

We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.

Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.

Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear.

We think there's nothing like sunlight to mobilize and energize citizens to demand change of their elected officials.

Life is a like a long note; it persists without variance, without wavering. There is no cessation in sound or pause in tempo. It continues on, and we must master it or it will master us.

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

Growing up, flute riffs was big in rap back then. It's what I listened to.

People end up fleeing countries who adopt economic policies based on these flawed principles. And more often than not, they come here.

As a brunette, I had previously been this serious actress. Then I became a blonde and got to play a completely different, comic role.