“You think embracing the longing while waiting for the right man is impossible? Well obviously you didn't get the memo.”

“I guess sometimes it takes a while for the heart to get the memo from the brain.”

“We waited and waited. All of us. Didn't the shrink know that waiting was one of the things that drove people crazy? People waited all their lives. They waited to live, they waited to die. They waited in line to buy toilet paper. They waited in line for money. And if they didn't have any money they waited in longer lines. You waited to go to sleep and then you waited to awaken. You waited to get married and you waited to get divorced. You waited for it to rain, you waited for it to stop. You waited to eat and then you waited to eat again. You waited in a shrink's office with a bunch of psychos and you wondered if you were one.”

“How long will you wait for the right time to come? The right time is now and the right place is here.”

“We ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back, when brown can stick around, when yellow will be mellow, when the red man can get ahead, man; and when white will embrace what is right.”

“I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't get--and never would get.”