“Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them.”

I want it to be so that when No. 27 is out there, they don’t know what’s going on because I do it all.

I’m not really trying to break the bank like some other people. I just want what’s fair.

Slavery has never been abolished from America’s way of thinking.

I was shy, but it came out in a big personality. My turning point was when I let my hair go naturally and I got contact lenses. I am really blind, by the way. I have these big eyes that don’t work!

I got my own way of praying.

I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.

It’s very helpful to start with something that’s true. If you start with something that’s false, you’re always covering your tracks. Something simple and true, that has a lot of possibilities, is a nice way to begin.

For now, poetry has the capacity – in its own ways and by its own means – to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.

We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a screen, that this is the way we live now. Memory marketed as nostalgia; terror reduced to mere suspense, to melodrama.

And the BMA sent a writ my wayWith the very first leper I cured.