Yusef Komunyakaa
Related Life is like farting in front of someone and then trying to convince him, you didn't fart. It's hard... ME Just look at what is spelled:ME Realizing you have something in common with another person makes you more human than you were yester... ME :) If a fangirl tells you she likes you, you better be happy. Her standards are very high. ME All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degr... ANDREA CORR SENATOR JOHN KERRY REY MYSTERIO All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degr... ANDREA CORR I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out. ED WESTWICK Writing helps me to create order out of chaos and make sense of things. It helps me to understand wh... MIRIAM TOEWS It not only helps me, ... it helps all the people around here. CAROLYN CLARK EL DEBARGE I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my ... JESMYN WARD AMBER TAMBLYN I absolutely think this is what I'm supposed to be doing, ... I think being an athlete helps me to u... BARBARA WALKER NANCY WERLIN ROSS CALIGIURI I love observing people. Each face tells so many stories. It lets me understand emotions, and that, ... NAWAZUDDIN SIDDIQUI ERIC KANDEL BILLY COLLINS PASCAL MERCIER YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA It totally shocked me when Jim told me. It caught me off guard. If it helps the program, I am willin... GEORGE COLEMAN TONY ABBOTT LINDSEY STIRLING SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE ELIZABETH JENNINGS CHARLES DICKENS NATASHA TRETHEWEY JIDENNA DENZEL WASHINGTON I'm just trying to get rid of all the mystery surrounding me and let people see what I'm thi... JULIANA HATFIELD Lots of people say to me, 'I completely hate Busted'. That's completely cool with me. I ... CHARLIE SIMPSON Pretend to the rest of the world, Mia. I understand your need to do that. But don't pretend with me. SAMANTHA TOWLE TADAO ANDO EUGENIO MONTALE It helps me keep things in perspective, and sometimes it helps me forget. Whenever I think things ar... VICTORIA MICHAELS Being in close games helps me stay focused. It helps me pitch better and keeps the pressure on me. FALLON LUMPKIN By some beautiful twist of fate I've landed in this vocation that demands that I feel and helps me t... JENNIFER CONNELLY EMMANUEL JAL ANOUK AIMEE RACHILDE It's with me when I work out, all the time. It helps motivate me a lot. CARLA KELLY Slowly, slowly I am starting to understand what has happened to me and to this Brazil team. RONALDO The yoga pose helps me to calm down and focus when I need to. BRIANNA HILDEBRAND you have right to disagree with me. you have right to understand what you had understand ( of course... DR. SHAILESH THAKER My poetry, I think, has become the way of my giving out what music is within me. COUNTEE CULLEN I can't drown my demons, they know how to swim" BRING ME THE HORIZON I have traveled through continents, languages, and time trying to understand all that I am and all t... LESLYE WALTON I always looked for someone who can appreciate my feelings, to understand me and above all feel very... OSCAR AULIQ-ICE CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH KATIE MCGARRY LIV TYLER To have the knowledge that would make my father proud is a gift that has not been handed to me on a ... GARY F EVANS... (It helps me by) staying in shape. (It also helps me by) not being winded (during the drills). AYA TRAORE ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY GEORGE LOPEZ Each story presents a mystery that has to be solved in the process of writing. When I'm at work ... CAROL WINDLEY RENE COTY Shoot, I've never been in the playoffs, so I'm running out of time, and I know that I need to rely o... JEFF CIRILLO NOVAK DJOKOVIC DAVE DAVIES CASSANDRA CLARE A small piece of me still believed in hope. However minute or unattainable hope seemed, I wanted the... E.R. PIERCE CIARA I love being on stage or in front of the camera. My work brings me a lot of joy. It helps me figure ... DANA DELANY Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, i... A. E. HOUSMAN I wanted to be around a 4:50, but I was happy with this. Sometimes (being pushed) helps me. I probab... LEAH GINGRICH JOHN GREEN ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY I'm THAT complicated, mysterious, yet content with the "simple" things in life. Don't try to underst... MARWA AYAD ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It was my science that drove me to the conclusion that the world is much more complicated than can b... ALLAN REX SANDAGE I enjoy it (smoking). It makes me feel good. It helps me relax. ANTHONY CLARK LIZ PHAIR CHUCK PALAHNIUK I understand the problems of last year, and I understand why I am here. I know what they expect me t... BILLY WAGNER I am anything I wish to be. The world cannot choose for me. No, it is for me to choose what the worl... FRANCES HARDINGE A lot of what I did in social work helps me now. It's benefited me here because I know the families. CAROL MITCHELL DAN BROWN KEITH HARING KATIE MCGARRY ANOUK AIMEE I am humbled to be third. I am humbled by the fact that people who don't know me very well are willi... SANDRA ANDERSON I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am. JACKIE DESHANNON We are just two lost souls looking for someone to love and understand us for who we really are at th... KAREN KOSTYLA HUGH LAURIE AVRIL LAVIGNE LAURA SCHLESSINGER My friends all regarded me as a man of unsound mind because I held the view that my wife was with me... ALEX CAMPBELL I'm a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments. ROGER FEDERER MICHAEL PHELPS TAMMY DUCKWORTH EDGAR ALLAN POE For me, teaching helps to reaffirm the right principles and values of acting. It helps me focus on t... MARK PELLEGRINO People who know me and get to know me understand what I'm about. A.J. PIERZYNSKI LEA DELARIA There are times I am happy. There are times I am sad. But I always try to separate emotion from the ... TROY POLAMALU Right now, I'm just doing what I can do to help the team. If it helps me (personally) in the long ru... DAN MOZES
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In the years afterward, I fled whenever somebody began to understand me. That has subsided. But one ... 
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Faith is important to me. It's important to millions of Australians. It helps to shape who I am.... 
I still follow the lifestyle of the Mormon church. I try to go to church every Sunday even when I... 
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My name is Jidenna, which means 'to hold or embrace the father' in Igbo. It was my father wh... 
My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace. 
I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other art... 
I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me. 
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The more the years go by, the less I know. But if you give explanations and understand everything, ... 
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It has taken me all my life to understand it is not necessary to understand everything. 
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I've always been ready to embrace what's around the corner because it might be just the thin... 
I have specific playlists for different books and characters. So, I need to have those with me. It h... 
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Pudge, what you must understand about me is that I am a deeply unhappy person. 
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