I Find In My Poetry And Prose

Independence Is A Heady Draught, And If You Drink It In Your Youth, It Can Have The Same Effect On The Brain As Young Wine Does. It Does Not Matter That Its Taste Is Not Always Appealing. It Is Addictive And With Each Drink You Want More.

You May Not Control All The Events That Happen To You, But You Can Decide Not To Be Reduced By Them.

Find Something You Like, Go Into A Room, Close The Door And Read It Aloud. Read It Aloud. Everybody In The World Who Likes Dance Can See Dance, Or Hear Music, Or See Art, Or Admire Architecture - But Everybody In The World Uses Words Who Is Not A Recluse Or Mute. But The Writer Has To Take These Most Common Things, More Common Than Musical Notes Or Dance Positions, A Writer Has To Take Some Adverbs, And Verbs And Nouns And Ball Them Up Together And Make Them Bounce.

You May Write Me Down In History With Your Bitter, Twisted Lines. You May Trod Me In The Very Dirt, But Still, Like Dust, I'll Rise.

I Wasn't A Pretty Girl. I Was Six Feet Tall At 15, You Know.