I just know that there are plenty of people who are in terrible trouble and can't get out. And so I'm impatient with those who think that it's easy for people to get out of trouble.

The surface of Earth heaved and seethed in fecund restlessness. Earth was most fertile where the most death was.

I hope that my ideas attract a lively dialogue, even if my sentences are simple. Simple sentences have always served me well. And I don't use semicolons. It's hard to read anyway, especially for high school kids. Also, I avoid irony, too. I don't like people saying one thing and meaning the other.

Roses are red, And ready for plucking, You're sixteen, And ready for high school.

The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read about great successes, since even for middle-class and upper-class white people, in my experience, failure is the norm.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.