Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other... men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system--with all these exalted powers--man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men themselves have wondered What they see in me.... They try so much But they can't touch My inner mystery. When I try to show them, They say they still can't see. I say, It's in the arch of my back, The sun of my smile, The ride of my breasts, The grace of my style. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies,... You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Still I enjoy The long sweetness of the simultaneity, yours and mine, ours and mine,... The mosquitoey summer night light. Now about your poem Called this poem: it stays and must outshine its welcome.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One ... aspect of the case for World War II is that while it was still a shooting affair it taught us survivors a great deal about... daily living which is valuable to us now that it is, ethically at least, a question of cold weapons and hot words.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm... nor cold, light nor dark. The pleasure they give is steady, unorgastic, reliable, deep and long-lasting. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I still feel just as I told you, that I shall come safely out of this war. I felt so the other day when danger was near. I certain...ly enjoyed the excitement of fighting our way out of Giles to the Narrows as much as any excitement I ever experienced. I had a good deal of anxiety the first hour or two on account of my command, but not a particle on my own account. After that, and after I saw that we were getting on well, it was really jolly. We all joked and laughed and cheered constantly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »