There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.

Strangers are an endangered species.

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.

I am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces I rarely see.

To become a token woman - whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sisters - is to become something less than a man... since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.

What I discerned in the U.S. was a convergence of poetic voices coming from many different rents in the social fabric, many cultures, many tributaries, which, together, make up the American poetry of the late twentieth century.

To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room for serious experimentation, to respect the effort even where it fails.