If we don't make earnest moves toward real solutions, then each day we move one day closer to revolution and anarchy in this country. This is the sad, and yet potentially joyous, state of America.

I love being irreverent. But I hate being irrelevant. I love being irreverent because at the end of the day your actions belie your intentions.

Esai Morales

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.

Ed Gillespie

Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.

Carter G. Woodson

I was a queen, and you took away my crown a wife, and you killed my husband a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.

Marie Antoinette

I have long been one of those tedious people who rails against the coronation of 'student-athletes.' I have heard the argument that big-time athletics bring in loads of money to universities. I don't believe the money goes anywhere other than back into the sports teams, but that's another story.

Susan Orlean

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.

Peter Straub

Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.

Bryant McGill

And say my glory was I had such friends.

William Butler Yeats

A Margo for each of us--and each more mirror than window.

John Green

I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake of divine vanity.

Kedar Joshi

We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.

Geraldine Ferraro