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" Lyndon Johnson, I know for a fact, was a great president. And I don't mean by that he was a great man. "

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" I'm proud that I've never stopped writing about being poor. "

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

" Poetry always, always, always is a key piece of democracy. "

" Having big audiences when you're on a book tour is like Valhalla if you're a person who used to sell Girl Scout cookies on the side. Because you want to give the reading that will sell the most books. "

" If I had been a good student and an achiever, I might have been excited by a more systematic approach to writing than what I do. "

" The most exciting thing is to read a poem out loud for the first time. "

" The only job that ever really worked for me was teaching because you are your own master once you get into the room. You just have to show up on time and talk about what you care about. "

" I wake up with a sense of wonder. I don't dread the future. I like it. "

" Who doesn't want to be famous? I am famous. I'm dying to be on TV. "

" With Instagram, you're captioning a moment. Twitter is the caption without the image. Even if it's there, the words come first. "

" Sunday is a likely day to write a poem. Because poetry is a piece of language flying around: you'll find notebooks, something on your phone. It's about finding them and getting them off that crumpled piece of paper and onto my computer. "

" If you have a dog, and you're a person whose moods are constantly changing, there's a moment when you look at the dog, and you feel bad for them because they're attached to you, and so it's funny for the dog to vocalize those things in some ways. "

" I'm not against wealth; I just think everybody should have it, same as health. "

" I made myself into a poet because it was the first thing I really loved. It was an act of will. "

" The poet is like the earth's shadow. The sun moves, and the poet writes something down. "

" I wasn't afraid of being poor. I didn't want to live in a big house. I'm the perfect size for poetry. I can move around. "

" I'm the weird poet who has paid her dues in the experimental world for 30 or 40 years. "

" When somebody's in love with you, they think it's amazing you've written them a poem, and when they don't love you anymore, they hate those poems. They wish those poems would go away. "

" Everybody loved me running for president in '91 and '92 because they never knew a presidential candidate before. "

" As a human being, I'm kind of a cheery melancholic. I have energy; I'm happy. "

" As things get worse, poetry gets better because it becomes more necessary. "

" Somehow, the whole idea of me writing art reviews was just too much of a complicated thought, but I liked art, and later on I just realized that it would be perhaps a pleasure, and so I decided to do it for 'Art in America' - a lot. "

" Evolution is not an even process. There are surges, and there are micromoments. Certainly a career as an artist is that way. "

" I always aimed at being a legend. "

" Older men get lovable, and older women get monstrous. "

" Dogs are a companion species. It's about time - you have an animal for about 15, 16 years, a generation. That time holds so much. You might have had five or six relationships with human beings but one dog. "

" I didn't know how to write a novel, so I sort of let it happen in waves. The only way I could write it was to think like scenes in a movie. "

" To be a poet, it's a challenge to do it in poverty, to do it in wealth. To do it in the academy, to do it in a relationship where you're happy. Everything changes the game. To do it in the awkward state of love, despair, dying. You just have to work it. "

" The thing about not being historically a mainstream writer is that everyone feels like you're theirs: you're their friend. "