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“If you find the dividing line between fairy tales and reality, let me know. In my mind, the two run together, even though the intersections aren't always obvious. The girl sitting quietly in class ...”
“Gingerbread I knew I had to get out of therebefore the icing cracked and they discoveredthat I'm burnt around the edges,doughy in the center,that what they thought was sugaris salt.If I was a good ...”
“And now we who are writing women and strange monstersStill search our hearts to find the difficult answers,Still hope that we may learn to lay our handsMore gently and more subtly on the burning sa...”
“Once upon a time,there was a Zen signat every small railway crossing in AmericaStop. Look. And listen.”
“You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.”
“And whose rules will choose to you follow? God's? Or man's? You say you want to break the outmoded patterns and crate a new model? Then do it. That is part of your destiny, boy.”
“The people who pray together build together a better world”
“Thoughts can be such slippery things sometimes,Very hard to handle.But to a well-trained mind,They are easy to bind”
“Thoughts have the power,To change how you perceive the world around you,To inflict worry, or make peace abound too.”
“Stand like a beaten anvil, when thy dreamIs laid upon thee, golden from the fire.Flinch not, though heavily through that furnace-gleamThe black forge-hammers fall on thy desire.Demoniac giants roun...”
“That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.”
“My next fight would not be measured in rounds, but throughout a lifetime. It would sustain and fulfill me longer than anything in the cage could. My opponent, my fight, would be against the slippin...”
“the mind is a treasuretrove, an almanac, a tomb.”
“There is a feeling the body gives the mindof having missed something, a bedrock poverty, like fallingwithout the sense that you are passing through one world,that you could reach anotheranytime. In...”
“What the mind forgetsThe scars keep remembering”
“You see, my mind takes me far, but my heart dreams of return.”
“Let your hair loose, and enjoy the breeze.Go out into the woods and sit under trees,Do whatever it takes and set your mind at ease.”
“Whether we consider hip-hop as an evolved manifestation of the Harlem Renaissance or something completely new under the sun, it clearly has moved beyond the stage of just entertaining lives to that...”
“The heat of midnight tears will bring you to God.”
“This wobbly worldhost to insects and lintand a thousand pithy waysto feel unserious each minuteIt brings abouta great softening of the mind, likethe clouded edges of sea glass (thisfilter you could...”
