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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
From 1836 down to last year there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace or possessing increased security against war.
Only the change on the international scene the crisis in the gulf and the strong firm position of the United States against aggression between two Arab countries created realities that led to the Madrid Peace Conference.
Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others.
Each one of these treaties is a step for the maintenance of peace an additional guarantee against war. It is through such machinery that the disputes between nations will be settled and war prevented.
Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling breathing and being peace that we can make peace.
Everyone has that friend who's every day like 'I hate my nose I hate my nose I hate my nose.' You either need to come to peace with it and be like alright I hate it but it's part of me - or change it. So I'm not against plastic surgery I'm against plastic surgery when it doesn't really need to be done.
The aggressive unprovoked acts of violence against Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas are revealing. It is clear they don't want peace but rather seek the ultimate destruction of Israel.
That a man be willing when others are so too as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary to lay down this right to all things and be contented with so much liberty against other men as he would allow other men against himself.
First let me report that the art in the Barnes Collection has never looked better. My trips to the old Barnes were always amazing but except on the sunniest days you could barely see the art. The building always felt pushed beyond its capacity.