"For most of my life, I've thought of myself as pretty cool."

-- Nikki Giovanni

“I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!”
“It's like taking over This Is Your Life from Eamonn Andrews - you just open your mouth and hope you sound like yourself. That's all you can possibly do.”
“The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.”
“Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.”
“If there were even one spark of evidence from antiquity that Jesus even may have gotten married, then as a historian, I would have to weigh this evidence against the total absence of such information in either Scripture or the early church traditions. But there is no such spark-not a scintilla of evidence-anywhere in historical sources. Even where one might expect to find such claims in the bizarre, second-century, apocryphal gospels...there is no reference that Jesus ever got married.”
“Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.”
“The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a midwife to the awakening of the Soul in another person.”
“Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass.”

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