Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. You toodle along, thinking that all gay men wear leather after dark and should never, ev...er be permitted around a Little League field. And then one day your best friend from college, the one your kids adore, comes out to you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And now good morrow to our waking souls, Which watch not one another out of fear;... For love all love of other sights controls, And makes one little room an everywhere. Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone, Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown, Let us possess one world; each hath one, and is one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have asked a lot of my emotions--one hundred and twenty stories. The price was high, right up with Kipling, because there was on...e little drop of something, not blood, not a tear, not my seed, but me more intimately than these, in every story, it was the extra I had. Now it has gone and I am just like you now.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few se...nsible words.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I could take the Harlem night and wrap around you,... Take the neon lights and make a crown, Take the Lenox Avenue buses, Taxis, subways, And for your love song tone their rumble down.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I n...ow am.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Across the lonely beach we flit, One little sandpiper and I;... And fast I gather, bit by bit, The scattered driftwood, bleached and dry. The wild waves reach their hands for it, The wild wind raves, the tide runs high, As up and down the beach we flit-- One little sandpiper and I.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No one knows better than children how much they need the authority that protects, that sets the outer limits of behavior with know...n and prescribed consequences. As one little boy expressed it to his mother, "You care what I do."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »