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Every poem is an infant labored into birth and I am drenched with sweating effort, tired from the pain and hurt of being a man, in the poem I transform myself into a woman.


Jimmy Santiago Baca

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From the poem "Fever 103°", 20 October 1962
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JIMMY HILL The music business used to carry a certain amount of brotherly love, but it isn't that way now.
JIMMY RUSHING I was a hard-workin' little boy. Oh, I worked. Pullin' cotton, shockin' grain, cuttin...
JIMMY DEAN My favorite song? 'Amazing Grace.' Anybody singing it. But the best it'll ever be done i...
JIMMY DEAN You know you're getting old when you go to more funerals than you do weddings.
JIMMY DEAN I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can...
JIMMY DEAN I used to help my granddaddy make sausage. He would mix it up in a cleaned-out washtub with his hand...
JIMMY DEAN I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's lik...
JIMMY DEAN A lot of things I am, and a lot of things I am not. But I think I'm about as good an American as...
JIMMY DEAN When I was a kid, I used to think, 'Man, if I could ever afford all the ice cream I want to eat,...
JIMMY DEAN I think the kids in school that laughed at the clothes that we wore and the house that we lived in, ...
JIMMY DEAN I went further on less talent than anyone, but I was a damned good entertainer.
JIMMY DEAN Do what you say you're going to do. And try to do it a little better than you said you would.
JIMMY DEAN Sausage is a great deal like life. You get out of it about what you put into it.
JIMMY DEAN I definitely feel pressure to keep slim. I don't want to be the guy who lost weight and gained i...
JIMMY KIMMEL Becoming a parent has changed the risk calculus for me. But it might be age, too, and seeing a lot o...
JIMMY CHIN People say, 'Are you insane?' But the most successful climbers are the most calculating, wit...
JIMMY CHIN I grew up in an Irish Catholic family, and I think they force you to watch every James Cagney movie.
JIMMY FALLON On Monday and Thursday, I eat fewer than 500 calories a day; then I eat like a pig for the other fiv...
JIMMY KIMMEL My first guitar was like a campfire guitar. And it was left at a house that my family had moved into...
JIMMY PAGE Just give me a good role that allows me to hone my craft, and I am a pretty happy camper.
JIMMY SMITS I think it's prima facie evidence for the existence of God because for me to grow up and actuall...
JIMMY WEBB I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest ...
JIMMY BRESLIN I feel great. I had a triple bypass in 1976 and a quadruple bypass in 1984.
JIMMY PIERSALL After a gig I always head back to the hotel, remembering granny's words of wisdom. I cancel the ...
JIMMY CARR Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism,...
JIMMY CARTER Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president h...
JIMMY BRESLIN I'm gonna be blunt and plain, if one ever looks at me like that I'm gonna kill him and tell ...
JIMMY SWAGGART A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures i...
JIMMY REID Parliamentarian rules, the rules of the House, how you get bills referred, really the nuts and bolts...
JIMMY GOMEZ For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?.
JIMMY DEAN I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
JIMMY DEAN There was promulgation of false propaganda by the administration about the existence of weapons of m...
JIMMY CARTER A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.
JIMMY CANNON 'Boogie Chillen',' by John Lee Hooker - that is a riff.
JIMMY PAGE