Poetry is life distilled.

Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.

She was afraid to suggest to him that to most people, nothing "happens." That most people merely live from day to day until they die. That, after he had been dead a year, doubtless fewer than five people would think of him oftener than once a year. That there might even come a year when no one on earth would think of him at all.

Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.