Quotes About Change

Galvanized plumbing was used years ago. Now we use copper.

Women's role in the household has changed since the women's movement. I don't know if women's role outside the household has changed. I mean, are more women mowing lawns and fixing shingles and doing electrical work and plumbing?

Experience should be a plus as long as it doesn't become complacency. If you say, 'We're not going to change; we didn't do it that way before,' then you've become too old.

The brilliance of Jill Soloway is that while some people will give you Season Two, plus 10%, she's just kicked it.

My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.

Cutting one side of your head for a few months is not a big deal compared with what other people have to deal with in the world. Plus, hair grows back.

Being a mother is a completely different feeling and my life has changed completely. Plus I have a new found respect for mothers.

I call Pluto the harbinger.

A lot of time, when you're poor and you ain't got but 15, 20 bucks in your pocket - if you can't change your shoes, you can change your look with a haircut.

I moved to Madrid with 200 bucks in my pocket to see what was going to happen. Of course, I didn't know that 200 euros was nothing, because in Cuba, 200 was a lot, and the money I had been saving from my movies.

I think the audience know which films are aimed at their pocket, and which films are aimed at their soul. There are a lot of films out there made by people who are genuinely trying to make a change.

It's still possible to find pockets of old Dublin - but its becoming more and more rarified.

Why do politicians and bureaucrats get salaries and perks from the pockets of the poor and do nothing for them? So I took action against the corrupt and the lazy.

I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door.

At each moment, a poem might grow into a totally different shape. It is not so much like working in a garden. It is more as if you remade the garden every day.

There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.

Fred Moten is a poet I really love because he changes who is telling the poem all the time.

I never really knew what to do with my hair to begin with. When I was fat, I had incredibly long, unkempt hair. And there was kind of a poetic justice to losing something I was hiding behind.

Poetry is a call to action, and it also is action.

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.

Poetry and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change.

I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.

Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.

I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.