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I like my raps but I'm never too happy with some of 'em because I feel like they could be better. But every time I hear my flow on that song I wow myself.
Tyler, The Creator
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My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do.
Anne Stevenson
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I don't smoke at all. I think that cigarettes are actually retarded. I don't understand why people do that to themselves.
Tyler, The Creator
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And for the rest of the night, he couldn’t quite forget the smell of her perfume. Or maybe it was the soft sound of her chuckle. Or maybe it was neither of those things. Maybe it was just her.
Julia Quinn
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When everything is for 'fun' nothing is for the good.
Anne Stevenson
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Being a black transgender woman in America is really hard. It's been really hard for me. But for me living a lie was much worse. I need to be in my truth. And I've been very, very lucky that I've been able to live my dreams and I believe everyone should have the right to live their dreams. This is America. We're supposed to all have that right.
Laverne Cox
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Golf Media is basically my brain in one place. It does just about everything except cure asthma. If you find an app that cures asthma, definitely let me know.
Tyler, The Creator
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I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.
Anne Stevenson
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I slipped myself some pink Xannies/And danced around the house in all-over print panties.
Tyler, The Creator
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I am 67, but I'm not too old to make a fresh start.
Thomas A. Edison
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I sold my soul to the devil. Lucifer will have my soul.
Tyler, The Creator
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Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally.
Anne Stevenson
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Do you remember when we picketed the White House in 1965?
Barbara Gittings
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My favorite songs are my favorite songs because they just feel like a certain moment, or a certain photo, just a snapshot for whatever three or four minutes the song is.
Tyler, The Creator
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Everyone's life is a train wreck. Your life happens to be a high-class train wreck.
Tyne Daly
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Mind led body to the edge of the precipice. They stared in desire at the naked abyss. If you love me, said mind, take that step into silence. If you love me, said body, turn and exist.
Anne Stevenson
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If you accept limitations then, yeah, you'll be limited. If you don't accept limitations then the horizon is pretty vast.
Tyne Daly
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I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.
Anne Stevenson
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Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.
Anne Stevenson
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The sea is as near as we come to another world.
Anne Stevenson
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I think the 20s are a vastly overrated decade. We promise kids that once they get out of school, life will begin and their dreams will come true. But then comes the struggle.
Tyne Daly
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Let me learn now where Beauty is I was born to know her mysteries . . .
Anne Spencer
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It is dangerous for a woman to defy the gods To taunt them with the tongue's thin tip, Or strut in the weakness of mere humanity, Or draw a line daring them to cross.
Anne Spencer
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Sometimes a little near death experience helps them put things into perspective.
Anne Shropshire
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