Poems List

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or that we are chattel, it is where we are trained to see the sex and race divisions and become callous to injustice even if it is done to ourselves, to accept as biological a full system of authoritarian government.

Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.

Every time a child says, I don't believe in fairies, there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

Ambition -- it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.

The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.

We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Heaven for climate, Hell for company.

I have always heard I was found in a tree

The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.

The first requisite for immortality is death.

Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

Whoever has the courage/passion to begin anything definitely will have the courage/passion to succeed. Yes, everything begins one day, be it a dream, a vision, or aspiration. But guess what drives them all? Nothing but courage/passion. Besides, that's the spirit of winners/champions. Anyway, are you courageous/passionate or not?

Everyone is naturally endowed with two common but great gifts: mind and time. Now, it's up to you/us to utilize both of them positively or negatively. Nevertheless, I'm urging that you use them positively rather than negatively. Because, however they are used presently will determine what will become of you in the future. I mean, if you use your mind/time positively today, definitely you will reap the rewards, subsequently, financially and otherwise. But, the reverse will be the case if you do misuse your own mind/time.

I am gay, and that's a good thing.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Treaties are like roses and young girls -- they last while they last

Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.