“When I had no roof I made audacity my roof.”
“I had a fierce headache and (my parents’) soft conversation was like a light rain falling on the hot roof of my head.”
“I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”
“I was a hypocrite. When the roof came down, it was going to fall on me first.”
“When it don’t rain, the roof don’t leak; when it rains, I can’t fix it nohow.”
“...I realize words are never enough; they stutter and cleave to the roof of my mouth.”