“I think we're creating a situation that's incredibly dangerous. There's a lot of chat at the moment about the war on terror and whilst there are many causes for acts of terrorism, what kind of society are you creating if you allow civil society in Africa to die and create millions upon millions of orphans? Where are they going to go? What kind of cults, what kind of militias, what's going to happen? The accession of violence in those countries, the possibility of that, to me is very terrifying.”
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“Life is a forced state! I am surprized that we live, rather than that our friends die.”
“That is not quite enough to make one happy, if one spends eight hours a day in something which in itself has no meaning and interest, except that one gains money from it.”
“The average American has separated his private life from his existence as a member of his society, and leaves that to the specialists in the government to take care of.”
“I have always felt that too much time was given before the birth, which is spent learning things like how to breathe in and out with your husband (I had my baby when they gave you a shot in the hip and you didn't wake up until the kid was ready to start school), and not enough time given to how to mother after the baby is born.”
“Summer is a discouraging time to work - you don't feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when the boys really put pen to paper.”
“Children coming forth today have a greater capacity to deal with, the greater variety of information that is coming forth, than you did.”
“Anyone who does investigative journalism is not in it for the money. Investigative journalism by nature is the most work intensive kind of journalism you can take on. That's why you see less and less investigative journalism at newspapers and magazines. No matter what you're paid for it, you put in so many man-hours it's one of the least lucrative aspects of journalism you can take on.”
“When Malcolm X was assassinated I was working at the Apollo. They brought his body to the Unity Funeral Home, which was around the corner.”
“What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?”
“It's amazing, if you know what you want to say, how fast it is to write.”
“I'll be glad to leave here. I feel like eating palm trees. I don't like this place. It's for people with arthritis. They come here to play golf and to die.”
“Coming up as an MC, I took the frustrations of the underground and brought it with me into the mainstream. I know there was a certain complex I had in the beginning that was just a little paranoid or a little...sensitive.”
“Women are capable of enduring a tremendous amount of disappointment and still have a good life.”
“A life without tragedy would not be worth living.”
“it will be objected that a constantly increasing population makes resistance and conservation a hopeless battle. this is true. unless a way is found to stabilize the nation's population, the parks can not be saved. or anything else worth a damn. wilderness preservation, like a hundred other good causes, will be forgotten under the overwhelming pressure of a struggle for mere survival and sanity in a completely urbanized, completely industrialized, ever more crowded environment. for my own part i would rather take my chances in a thermonuclear war than live in such a world.”
“I'll die propped up in bed trying to do a poem about America.”
“Humans react to danger when it is immediate, immoral, visible... Global warming does not press any of those buttons.”
“The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.”
“Suffering brings experience.”