"I am a poet, bard, scop, minnesinger, trobairitz who is driven by sound and the possibilities for vocal expression, the mouthing of text as well as intentionality or dance on the page."

-- Anne Waldman

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“I landed in this country with $2.50 in cash and $1 million in hopes, and those hopes never left me,”
“In Mexico you have death very close. That's true for all human beings because it's a part of life, but in Mexico, death can be found in many things.”
“Frankly, I was extremely jealous of his scenes with Zoe Saldana and I think it's totally unfair that I never got to do that. I will never forgive the writers and the director, for having put me in this position, to have to be watching that, rather than participating.”
“Understanding a metaphor is like deciphering a code or unraveling a riddle.”
“An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain.”
“Theology, Mr. Fortune found, is a more accommodating subject than mathematics; its technique of exposition allows greater latitude. For instance when you are gravelled for matter there is always the moral to fall back upon. Comparisons too may be drawn, leading cases cited, types and antetypes analysed and anecdotes introduced. Except for Archimedes mathematics is singularly naked of anecdotes.”
“When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.”
“The constitution of human nature" teaches us not to expect "that the persons, entrusted with the administration of the affairs of the particular members of a confederacy, will at all times be ready, with perfect good humor, and an unbiased regard to the public weal, to execute the resolutions of decrees of the general authority." "This tendency is not difficult to be accounted for," Publius argues, "It has its origin in the love of power.”

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