Beware the/easy griefs, that fool and fuel nothing./It is too easy to cry "AFRIKA!"/and shock thy street,/and purse thy mouth,/and... go home to thy "Gunsmoke," to/thy "Gilligan's Island" and the NFL.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Revolution begins with the self, in the self.... We'd better take the time to fashion revolutionary selves, revolutionary lives, r...evolutionary relationships. Mouth don't win the war.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you love music, hear it; go to operas, concerts and pay fiddlers to play to you; but I insist on your neither piping nor fiddli...ng yourself. It puts a gentleman in a very frivolous, contemptible light.... Few things would mortify me more than to see you bearing a part in a concert, with a fiddle under your chin, or a pipe in your mouth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...when I have formed the sounds, said the words out loud, those who had assumed Yiddish was a language of the past only, suddenly... felt it had been revived. As my tongue, mouth, lips, throat, lungs physically pushed Yiddish into the world--as I, a Jew, spoke a Jewish language to other Jews--Yiddish was very much alive. Not unlike a lebn geblibene, a survivor, of an overwhelming catastrophe, it seemed to be saying 'khbin nisht vos ikh bin amol geven. I am not what I once was. Ober 'khbin nisht geshtorbn. Ikh leb. But I did not die. I live.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My love lies underground With her face upturned to mine,... And her mouth unclosed in a last long kiss That ended her life and mine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they do. It aggravates 'em. You're not gonna change any of them by talk...in' right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
the only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become your mouth... and dying in black and white we fight for what we love, not areLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut ou...t your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »