The people always know that some of the grain will be good, some of the crop will be saved, some will return and bear the strength of the kernel, that from the bloodiest year some survive to outfox the frost.

Hard times ain't quit and we ain't quit.

Literature must spring from the deep and submerged humus of our life.

Linear thinking is patriarchal.

It's not the suffering of birth, death, love that the young reject, but the suffering of endless labor without dream, eating the spare bread in bitterness, being a slave without the security of a slave.

The people always know that some of the grain will be good, some of the crop will be saved, some will return and bear the strength of the kernel, that from the bloodiest year some survive to outfox the frost.

Money is only money, beans tonight and steak tomorrow. So long as you can look yourself in the eye.