For to be poised against fatality to meet adverse conditions gracefully is more than simple endurance it is an act of aggression a positive triumph.

My political science degree is always on the back-burner. I took my LSAT so even if I want to take the LSAT again I know what I'm getting into. I'll keep it on the back-burner. Who knows maybe with my popularity I can have a career in politics with a law degree. I think it'll work out either way.

I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq or any type of war.

I hate injustice and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics.

When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed in the face of every constitutional convention only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics.

Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.

You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life.

As a black woman my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.

I was losing interest in politics when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.

If you are going to sin sin against God not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

Hell I never vote for anybody I always vote against.

And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

So poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.

This proves that great lyric poetry can die be reborn die again but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul.

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point life itself takes over again.

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness vigor and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet especially not against their poetry.

Poetry even when apparently most fantastic is always a revolt against artifice a revolt in a sense against actuality.

One will never again look at a birch tree after the Robert Frost poem in exactly the same way.

I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things to me are expressions of love.