If you avoid difficult things, great things will avoid you.
I'd like to think every director I've worked with has fallen in love with me, I know Dorothy Arzner did.
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Care for your clothes, like the good friends they are
I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.
You know the troubles I've had with my two older children. I can't understand why it turned out so badly. I tried to give them everything. I loved them and tried to keep them near me, even when they didn't return my love. Well, I couldn't make them love me, but they could have shown some respect. I couldn't insist on love, but I could insist on respect.
Well, we can skip childhood because I didn't have any. Not one goddam moment on the Good Ship Lollipop.
My highway is unfeatured air, My consorts are the sleepless stars, And men my giant arms upbear My arms unstained and free from scars.
People who lose children have their hearts warped into weird shapes. Some try to deny it has happened. Some pretend it hasn't. Losing friends or parents is not the same. To lose a child is beyond comprehension. It defies biology. It contradicts the natural order of history and genealogy. It derails common sense. It violates time. It creates a huge, black, bottomless hole that swallows all hope.
. . . the majority of people cannot endure the bareness and futility of their lives unless they have some ardent dedication, or some passionate pursuit in which they can lose themselves.
An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan