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.

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.

There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man's shirt on its morning run.

at a certain moment in social proceedings, I am on FIRE to leave: I have a leaving-FIT.

She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.

I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.

Poetry is life distilled.