1301) "chick rock.... chantal whatever her last name, shawn colvin, a blend of every dream thought process moment of indecision.... life is looking up just because i refuse to look down and notice the gators swimming beneath my log pole./ you're beautiful and secure/ they adore you in your present state of exultation/ self reliance and esteem/ glow from your eyes./ everybody falls in love with you,/ dropping the road map where you're concerned./ i used to drink myself into revelations/ alone in my room with only candle light for inspiration./ you never knew the girl behind the mask./ your lips were acquainted with the appropriate facade./ i've forgotten what being real with someone meant/ after the years of makeup creased the mask/ so to distinguish between the original and the false/ is impossible./ you shy away from my reality/ angered by my presence/ but i can find myself in that secret code/ associated with the music/ i wrap myself so far around./ the wind eats the angry tirade, forlorn promises, and misdirected quotes/ you don't notice my attempts to hide/ you don't acknowledge the lengths i'd go to/ just to protect you./ some day, silent on the banshee tree/ you'll think you're alone./ maybe you'll have the balls to look down/ and realize/ i'm right below you,/ prepared to catch your fall/ if the branch ever breaks."-Rain Tori
1302) "It's that feeling, you don't have to say any words, we didn't talk, but something was defintely heard, and these chairs, they won't let me go anywhere, well these chairs, they hold me like I wish you would hold me. And I don't want to cry every morning, I don't want to cry every night, I don't want to bash my head up against the wall... And I want to see you again, and I want to touch you again, and I want to feel like I did, when I was with you, and I want to feel. Sun's gone down, finally, the air is so warm it kisses me, and I know you're out there, and I wonder, are you thinking about me? And I don't want to cry every morning, I don't want to cry every night, I don't want to bash my head up against the wall who holds... And I want to see you again, and I want to touch you again, and I want to feel like I did, when I was with you, and I want to feel. And I want to see you again, and I want to touch you again, and I want to feel like I did, when I was 16, and I want to feel."-Kaia Wilson, "16"
1303) "There was never any more inception than there is now,/ Nor any more youth or age than there is now,/ And will never be any more perfection than there is now,/ Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now."-Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself"
1304) "A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;/ How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he."-Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself"
1305) "Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged,/ Missing me one place search another,/ I stop somewhere waiting for you."-Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself"
1306) "Oh, it's enough to be on your way,/ It's enough to cover ground,/ It's enough to be moving on..."-James Taylor
1307) "Thou shall not kill. Thou shall not commit adultery. Don't eat pork. I'm sorry, what was that last one?? Don't eat pork. God has spoken. Is that the word of God or is that pigs trying to outsmart everybody?"-Jon Stewart
1308) "The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they are okay, then it's you."-Rita Mae Brown
1309) "Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem. Maybe you should get rid of the body before you do the wash."-Jerry Seinfeld
1310) "I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her."-Ellen DeGeneres
1311) "A lady came up to me on the street and pointed at my suede jacket. 'You know a cow was murdered for that jacket?' she sneered. I replied in a psychotic tone, 'I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now I'll have to kill you too.'"-Jake Johansen
1312) "I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific."-Lily Tomlin
1313) "The Swiss have an interesting army. Five hundred years without a war. Pretty impressive. Also pretty lucky for them. Ever see that little Swiss Army knife they have to fight with? Not much of a weapon there. Corkscrews. Bottle openers. 'Come on, buddy, let's go. You get past me, the guy in back of me, he's got a spoon. Back off. I've got the toe clippers right here.'"-Jerry Seinfeld
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1315) "So sometimes all our identities become pushed into the background as we, I don't know, grow up and get jobs or something."-Ani DiFranco
1316) "On a sidewalk near Portland State University someone wrote `Trust Jesus', and someone else wrote `But Cut the Cards.'"
1317) "I celebrate myself, and sing myself,/ And what I assume you shall assume,/ For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you./ ...And of these one and all I weave the song of myself."-Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself"
1318) "Love can't make you strong 'till love has made you weak."-Catie Curtis, "Heroes"
1319) "I'm not being radical when I kiss you. I don't love you to make a point. It's the hollow of my heart, that cries when I miss you, and keeps me alive when we're apart."-Catie Curtis, "Radical"
1320) "Heroes...I don't know any, so stop trying to be one, and just be somebody. Someone who can be a fool. Someone who can love me; not be silent and cool."-Catie Curtis, "Heroes"
1321) "To allow mystery, which is to say to yourself, 'There could be more...things we don't understand,' is not to damn knowledge....It is to permit yourself an extraordinary, freedom: someone else does not have to be wrong in order that you might be right...This tolerance for mystery invigorates the imagination; and it is the imagination that gives shape to the universe."-Barry Lopez
1322) "I was asleep...you awakened me. My memories lay undisturbed...you stirred them."-Maazoon
1323) "we are Adam in the garden, giving language to what we know to be true. all i know is that Love is Love--however it shows up in truth. when i dare to choose it, this is love and makes Life worth Living."-Sonia Rutstein
1324) "What I'm lookin' for is true community, not speculation, not imitation, old and young, rich and dumb, kings and queens and all you in betweens."-Sonia Rutstein
1325) "there's a point when something becomes personal and you really can't go back to not caring, no matter how far you might try to run, and it's sometimes frightening but it's a good feeling i think."-Audrey Beth Stein
1326) "There's this assmunch thing that I hate/ If it were a person, he/she would be perpetually late/ If its name were Destiny, it would insist on being called Fate/ [for short]/ If it were metallic, in one's head it would be a plate/ If it were a train, most certainly it would be a freight/ If it lived in San Francisco, its neighborhood would be Haight/ [ashbury, that is]/ Oh Telnet, Telnet,/ You puzzle us so/ Denying our online presence/ Pierces me, you must know"-Narda Quigley, "Ode to Telnet"
1327) "O you whom I often and silently come where you are, that I may be with you,/ As I walk by your side, or sit near, or remain in the same room with you,/ Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing within me.--"-Walt Whitman
1328) "I want someone to look into my eyes/ Peer beyond the mist/ Go further than the lens/ And gaze so steadily that I go blind."-Purvi Desai
1329) "The present is painful,/ but at least it's comfortable/ Leaving is scary/ Even though happiness could be waiting."-Purvi Desai
1330) "It is essential to be drunk all the time. That's all: there's no other problem. If you do not want to feel the appalling weight of Time which breaks your shoulders and bends you to the ground, get drunk, and drunk again. What with? Wine, poetry, or being good, please yourself. But get drunk. And if now and then, on the steps of a palace, on the green grass of a ditch, in the glum loneliness of your room, you come to, your drunken state abated or dissolved, ask the wind, ask the wave, the star, the bird, the clock, ask all that runs away, all that groans, all that wheels, all that sings, all that speaks, what time it is; and the wind, the wave, the star, the bird, the clock, will tell you: 'It is time to get drunk!' If you do not want to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk, always get drunk! With wine, with poetry or with being good. As you please."-Charles Baudelaire
1331) "I have no words that please me./ Mouth taped shut,/ dissatisfied, perfectionist/ Obsessed with the 'right' word/ (which is never the one I choose)/ Afraid to open up/ for fear of what may spill forth./ Afraid to fail,/ Afraid of rejection,/ Afraid of comparison,/ dying to master words/ emotion, truth, pain, joy/ to capture a moment in penstrokes,/ keystrokes/ brushstrokes,/ never really happy with what comes."-Vincent Cuenca, "Why I Don't Write Poetry"
1332) "Definitions. When language lacks the ability to convey what is in our souls and minds, our desires and feelings, our aches and ecstasies, it always comes down to definitions."-Shar Rednour
1333) "Every once in a while, my timing is exquisite. By that I mean that what's going on in the world seems to complement and reflect what's going on in my life. At those times, everything fits together like the pieces of a giant jigsaw puzzle: the music on the radio, the books everyone's reading, even world events. For instance, on the day I married a man with whom I was clearly incompatible, the worst snowstorm of the decade hit New York. The first time I smoked pot, Wodstock happened. And I take pride in the fact that I was born the year that World War II ended."-Marcy Sheiner
1334) "walking along the pavement together you are fast/ too fast and my body feels suddenly empty. my legs stall i can't keep up with even your shadow. why am i walking with you?"-Lisi Dehaas
1335) "Someone once told me that there's always a ghost in every sexual attraction, it's always about someone else: it's never the person, it's always the person you're reminded of."-Alison Dara Gallant
1336) "Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desires to be complete."-Aristophanes
1337) "We die as often as we lose a friend."-Pubilus Syrus
1338) "If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am for myself alone, what am I? And if not now, when?"-Hillel
1339) "The evil which you fear becomes a certainty by what you do."-Goethe
1340) "It's not the subject, it's what you carry to it that's important--what you feel about it, whaqt you've dreamed about it."-Andrew Wyeth
1341) "You took the toaster when you went/ You never paid your half the rent/ You took the spices from the rack/ But you don't have to put them back/ 'Cause in your haste on Halloween/ You left your camera on the bed/ Where we played roles in black and white/ You left a roll of black-and-white/ I set the timer and thought of you/ And put the lens up to my head/ I took a photograph for you/ What comes out grey is really red/ So are you happy now?/ I smashed your pumpkin on the floor/ The candle flickered at my feet/ As goblins flew across the moon/ The children peered into the room/ A cowboy shivered on the porch/ And Cinderella checked her watch/ A hobo waited in the street/ And an angel whispered trick-or-treat/ But what was I supposed to do/ But to sit there in the dark/ I was amazed to think that you/ Could take the candy with you too/ So are you happy now?/ I've sat all night, and now it's dawn/ And I cannot believe my eyes/ There's garbage strewn across the lawn/ Where we once stared up at the sky/ And streams of paper fill the tree/ That hovered over you and me/ And shaving cream covers the car/ That we picked up in Baltimore/ And though I know it's hard to tell/ I hope that what's-his-name treats you well/ I still maintain that he's a bum/ But it's your money, have some fun/ And are you happy now?/ And you always asked why I had not/ Written you a verse or two/ Since that's the one thing I regret/ I dedicate this one to you/ So are you happy now?/ Are you?"-Richard Shindell, "Are You Happy Now"
1342) "There is that in me--I do not know what it is--but I know it is in me./ Wrench'd and sweaty--calm and cool then my body becomes, I sleep--I sleep long./ I do not know it--it is without name--it is a word unsaid,/ It is not in any dictionary, utterance, symbol./ Something it swings on more than the earth I swing on,/ To it the creation is the friend whose embracing awakes me./ Perhaps I might tell more. Outlines! I plead for my brothers and sisters./ Do you see O my brothers and sisters?/ It is not chaos or death--it is form, union, plan--it is eternal life--it is Happiness."-Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself"
1343) "There's a fine line between thoughtfulness and transsexuality."-Max Norman
1344) "God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things."-Pablo Picasso
1345) "I don't like labels too much...but sometimes they lend a little stability to madness."-Sarah Peer
1346) "'Cause to me, it's, there's nothing that's personal and private; it's all universal. There's no experience that I have ever had that's unique. And the fact that there is just certain 'stuff' that we don't talk about immediately makes me want to go there and bring it up...all that stuff that we share but don't admit to and don't talk about. You know, what is that about?"-Ani DiFranco
1347) "It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society."-Krishnamurti
1348) "I intend to live forever--so far, so good."-Stephen Wright
1349) "Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see each other whole against the sky."-Rainer Rilke
1350) "Honk if you love peace and quiet."
1351) "Dreams can be deceiving, like faces are to hearts."-Fiona Apple
1352) "With any kind of physical test, I don't know what it is, I always seem to get competitive. Remember when you were in school and they'd do those hearing tests? And you'd really be listening hard, you know? I wanted to do unbelievable on the hearing test. I wanted them to come over to me after and go, 'We think you may have something close to super-hearing. What you heard was a cotton ball touching a piece of felt. We're sending the results to Washington, we'd like you to meet the President.'"-Jerry Seinfeld
1353) "Every time a friend emails me, my Inbox records it and counts the number of new email messages I have every time I check. Thus the amount of love my friends have for me can be made into a number. Conversely, the solitude that is my due as a writer can also be measured, not only by the number of messages read, but by the time that flashes in the lower part of the screen, the colon between the number of the hour and the number of the minute blinking off and on like sun-blinded eyes, perfectly similar yet marking off each individual freakish second of time. What am I to make of it?"-Samson Craft
1354) "When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego,/ and when we escape like squirrels turning in the cages of our personality/ and get into the forests again,/ we shall shiver with cold and fright/ but things will happen to us/ so that we don't know ourselves./ Cool unlying life will rush in,/ and passion will make our bodies taut with power/ and old things will fall down,/ we shall laugh, and institutions will curl up like burnt paper."-D.H. Lawrence
1355) "I try very hard to live by the saying 'To thine own self be true' and to live life for myself because, ultimately, no one else is going to get anything out of it but me. I work hard to let people be who they are, knowing that any amount of judging them won't change them. There are many things I can say I need in life, but when it comes down to it, the only thing that will make me happy when I'm having a bad day is knowing I'm wanted, that people would rather have me in this world than not. Because there are those times when you forget how it feels to be alive, you forget you would rather be in this world than not be in it. For me the most important thing is to laugh. I need to laugh my whole entire life. Laugh so much people think I'm crazy and then get them laughing with me."-Heather Wolf-Smeeth, Daughters of the Moon, Sisters of the Sun: Young Women & Mentors on the Transition to Womanhood
1356) "I don't know if this is a happy ending but here we are let loose in open fields."-Jeanette Winterson
1357) "I don't think any human being is truly free. We're so tethered to our own insecurities and hampered by our fears and our prejudices. I think it's human nature that we're never going to be free."-Emily Saliers
1358) "...I think we're all lonely. I think that's the human condition. I think we all feel loneliness, but I'm not afraid of it and I'm not afraid of being alone. I see the suffering of feeling lonely. I have felt loneliness; I've felt lonely with people and without them. But I've only grown from it, learned from it. The negative impact has disappeared for me in the face of all the positive things I've learned. I find that when you get upset by loneliness or you feel like crying or you get that painful feeling, it isn't a bad thing. I just look at it as feelings."-Amy Ray
1359) "...nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom."-James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room
1360) "People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception."-James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room
1361) "Are you dumb because you know me not,/ Or dumb because you know?"-Robert Frost
1362) "Trials never end of course. Unhappiness and misfortune are bound to occur as long as people live, but there is a feeling now, that was not here before, and it is not just on the surface of things, but penetrates all the way through: We've won it. It's going to get better now. You can sort of tell these things."-Robert M. Pirsig
1363) "As a woman I have no country...My country is the whole world."-Virginia Woolf
1364) "...peace does not always bring justice."-V. Spike Peterson and Anne Sisson Runyan
1365) "In this society so many of us internalize oppression. We internalize the guilt that belongs to the system that creates the condition people live in. When we realize this and turn our anger outward in an effort to change society, then we begin to create a world worth living in."-Estelle Disch
1366) "Clearing webs from the hovel/ A blistered hand on the handle of a shovel/ I've been digging too deep, I always do./ I see my face on the surface/ I look a lot like Narcissus/ A dark abyss of an emptiness/ Standing on the edge of a drowning blue./ I look behind my ears for the green/ Even my sweat smells clean/ Glare off the white hurts my eyes./ Gotta get out of bed get a hammer and a nail/ Learn how to use my hands, not just my head/ I think myself in a jail/ Now I know a refuge never grows/ From a chin in a hand in a thoughtful pose/ Gotta tend the earth if you want a rose./ I had a lot of good intentions/ Sit around for fifty years and then collect a pension,/ Started seeing the road to hell and just where it starts./ But my life is more than a vision/ The sweetest part is acting after making a decision/ I started seeing the whole as a sum of its parts./ My life is part of the global life/ I'd found myself becoming more immobile/ When I'd think a little girl in the world can't do anything./ A distant nation my community/ A street person my responsibility/ If I have a care in the world I have a gift to bring."-Emily Saliers, "Hammer and a Nail"
1367) "I'd even go so far as to say that the most useful stuff you learn at college is neither in the classroom nor in extracurrics nor in socializing: the useful stuff is in the 'meta' areas, in the mind-bludgeoning stress tactics you use to deal with things all at the same time. College teaches you how to totally bullshit on papers, because (Scotch willing) when you get a job, you have to bullshit there too. College teaches you how to deal with the neuralgiac stress of unfairly-distributed multiple assignments all at once so you're prepared for later in life with the whole job/bills/kids/marriage juggling act. And college teaches you the ugly reality of prioritizing things in your life: putting academics ahead of your love life, putting money ahead of your social life, putting your projected 'future' (as manifested in a final paper) ahead of getting a good night's sleep. That's really what I'm learning here, and man, I am most assuredly getting my $20K-per-annum-tuition's worth, even though my family can't afford it."-Scott "Scotch" Herman
1368) "Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily."-David Byrne
1369) "It would be hard to say what my life would be like unattached to this particular experience."-Emily Saliers
1370) "...I shall never be able to have any more of those boyish, zestful affairs--which are, really, when one thinks of it, a kind of higher, or, anyway, more pretentious masturbation. People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted."-James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room
1371) "Perhaps he is a fool and a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both."-James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room
1372) "...one of the real troubles with living is that living is so banal."-James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room
1373) "...perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition."-James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room
1374) "Much has been written of love turning to hatred, of the heart growing cold with the death of love. It is a remarkable process. It is far more terrible than anything I have ever read about it, more terrible than anything I will ever be able to say. I don't know, now, when I first looked at Hella and found her stale, found her body uninteresting, her presence grating. It seemed to happen all at once--I suppose that only means that it had been happening for a long time."-James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room
1375) "we are ghosts/ in the night/ leading parallel lives/ i try to grab a hold/ of your sweater/ but all there is/ is your shadow"-Amanda Nancy Wolfman
1376) "How can I always love you?/ I love apricot italian sodas/ But I don't always love them/ Sometimes I want a diet Pepsi or something else/ If I can't always love a drink/ How can I always love you?"-Amanda Nancy Wolfman
1377) Strawberry ice cream/ Your leg touching mine/ My hand on your shoulder/ Laugther/ Interest/ Apprehension/ Because to you was it just/ Strawberry ice cream, your leg touching mine, my hand on/ your shoulder"-Amanda Nancy Wolfman
1378) "SCHOLARSHIP--endless pursuit of procrastination"-JillyC
1379) "Agonies are one of my changes of garments,/ I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person,/ My heart turns livid upon me as I lean on a cane and observe."-Walt Whitman
1380) "...myself disintegrated, every one disintegrated yet part of the scheme."-Walt Whitman
1381) "Three cheers for originality/ In order to avoid banality/ If you're so inspired/ Go after what your heart desires/ And FUCK grades."-Narda Quigley
1382) "Aren't relationships so weird? In theory it sounds like it should be so simple but emotions are just so confusing."
1383) "I don't care if it's a sad good-by or a bad good-by, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse."-J. D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
1384) "It's partly true too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true."-J. D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
1385) "You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it."-J. D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
1386) "[We] told each other we were glad to've met each other. Which always kills me. I'm always saying 'Glad to've met you' to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though."-J. D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
1387) "It was against my principles and all, but I was feeling so depressed I didn't even think. That's the whole trouble. When you're feeling very depressed, you can't even think."-J. D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
1388) "The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody'd move. You could go there a hundred thousand times, and that Eskimo would still be just finished catching those two fish, the birds would still be on their way south, the deers would still be drinking out of that water hole, with their pretty antlers, and their pretty, skinny legs, and that squaw with the naked bosom would still be weaving that same blanket. Nobody'd be different. The only thing that would be different would be you. Not that you'd be so much older or anything. It wouldn't be that exactly. You'd just be different, that's all. You'd have an overcoat on this time. Or the kid that was your partner in line the last time had got scarlet fever and you'd have a new partner. Or you'd have a substitute taking the class, instead of Miss Aigletinger. Or you'd heard your mother and father having a terrible fight in the bathroom. Or you'd just passed by one of those puddles in the street with gasoline rainbows in them. I mean you'd be different in some way--I can't explain what I mean. And even if I could, I'm not sure I'd feel like it."-J. D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
1389) "It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to."-J. D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
1390) "I'm not too sure old Phoebe knew what the hell I was talking about. I mean she's only a little child and all. But she was listening, at least. If somebody at least listens, it's not too bad."-J. D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
1391) "...lots of time you don't know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn't interest you most. I mean you can't help it sometimes."-J. D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
1392) "The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."-Wilhelm Stekel
1393) "Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them--if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry."-J. D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
1394) "It's funny. Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."-J. D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
1395) "Mixes are like a membership to the Jelly of the Month Club--the gift that keeps on giving, ya know."-Narda Quigley
1396) "So often, over the course of our day-to-days, we forget the details of what shapes us most in life. Sure, we'll pay through the nose to have our weddings videotaped, but can we say the same thing about the first time we discovered masturbation, or the moment we realized that the true nature of the opposite sex is to lie and humiliate (and I'm not just talking about women here)? Usually not."-Kevin Smith
1397) "Having 'The Garden State' on the license plates doesn't make nearly as much sense as, say, 'The Exit-Happy State,' or 'No, we don't all have that accent.' Because it is and we don't."-Kevin Smith
1398) "...being a woman these days is not something you read about in Cosmo or other mainstream depictions past or present. It isn't about those old stereotypes: mom, supermodel, slut, secretary, silent participator, helpless waif, wandering maiden. My niche here has been carved out of our unspoken unity in not going down any one path, but serpentining through them all, experimenting and rejecting along the way without any rules except to not go the old way. Now I am leaving the fold, going under, entering into a tradition that none of us has tested, abandoned with finality or accepted."-Rebecca Ryan
1399) "But underneath it all as I was growing up, home was still a sweet place somewhere else which they had not managed to capture yet on paper, nor to throttle and bind up between the pages of a schoolbook. It was our own, my truly private paradise..."-Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
1400) "If you can't change reality, change your perceptions of it."-Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name