We should have hope because we've earned it. We've worked for it! It's ours.
Maxine Waters
Recitation: by Male by Female
My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end.
John Barton
TimeNew ThingsPoetryMeEndNew
We come to Selma to be renewed. We come to be inspired. We come to be reminded that we must do the work that justice and equality calls us to do.
John Lewis
WorkJusticeEqualityInspiredUs
I found out I had a real love for comedy and comedy writing. The logic was, there weren't too many female comedians, so I thought I might as well try a field that had fewer competitors than the field I was in, which was acting, singing and dancing.
Rita Rudner
LoveWritingSingingThoughtComedy
I used to write at night. I was teaching school, and I was married, and had to do all the things that one does when one is working and has a family. But I used to write at night.
Rudolfo Anaya
FamilySchoolNightWriteThings
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
Mary Wollstonecraft
BeautyWomanMindPrisonBodyCage
Lotus's efforts around the Mac were pathetically unsuccessful, which is sad.
Mitch Kapor
SadLotusUnsuccessfulAroundMac
When I was discharged, I attended the University of Paris and met a beautiful Parisian girl, Janine. We soon married and eventually returned to the States.
Lloyd Alexander
GirlBeautifulParisUniversitySoon
All three of my kids play soccer. Each one of them started from the time they were about 5 or 6, and we just love it.
Lisa Vidal
LoveTimeSoccerPlayThreeStarted
I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.
Anne Stevenson
LifeArtI AmPoetryLanguageQuiet
People can be a bit flagrant when they're having an affair. Most of the time, there's an element of it where they want to be discovered because they're in crisis. They need the boil to be burst, in some way, for a resolution.
Anne-Marie Duff
TimePeopleResolutionWantWay
In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
William S. Burroughs
I AmSpaceWritingActingMapSee
I'm conscious of my race and ethnicity in the legislature - it's hard not to be.
Pramila Jayapal
RaceHardEthnicityLegislature
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