Work Quotes

Love has been called the most effective motivational force in all the world. When love is at work in us, it is remarkable how giving and forgiving, understanding and tolerant we can be.

You don’t necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they’re poets. I don’t call myself a poet, because I don’t like the word. I’m a trapeze artist.

[on sexual politics] The Golden Rule works for men as written, but for women it should go the other way around. We need to do unto ourselves as we do unto others.

I’ve always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.

Some of us got grandparents that walked miles to work instead of riding bus, just to show the bus companies that they won’t tolerate racism.

So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.