America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see.

So the best thing is to really work on yourself and opening your own heart and just letting all that stuff [worrying] go. And it is possible. It's sometimes takes a lot of time; it's not easy. And a lot of sitting with yourself and trying to work with your own heart.

She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

Some people don't understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind to recall anything that was ever known.

Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.

Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.