Controversial Sayings

Sex is the root of it all—the animal want, the eager physical hunger, Sex will not be put aside; it is a great ordination of the universe.

They shut me up in Prose — As when a little Girl / They put me in the Closet — Because they liked me 'still' —

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.

I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything should just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there.

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

Shit in your bed and make it burst.

If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.

You don't write the kind of songs I write just being a conventional type of songwriter.

It's frightening because not only are they bothering me but they're horrible to look at, too.

He's died, he's dead. Hopefully we can continue the legacy he has given a lot of kids and a lot of people.

I now own that station. That is Black power.

I'm contemplating yelling 'bombs away' on the game / Like I'm outside of an Ariana Grande concert waiting.

The products suck! There's no sex in them anymore!

The risks created by artificial intelligence can seem overwhelming, but we've done it before.

If a woman can do the work as well, she is worth as much as a man.

It's awful to show one's knees when one doesn't have pretty knees.

There are no ugly women – only women who don't care or don't believe they're attractive.

I pay low wages. I can take advantage of that. We're going to be successful, but the basis is a very low-wage, low-benefit model of employment.

Some of their responses were Neanderthal.