Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.

The password is a flicker of an eyelash.

I've known great happiness in my life along with great darkness, and a question that has repeatedly entered my poetry has been, how do we use the direct experience of happiness that may be given us, whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?

I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from "Splittings

I define "politics" as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create - not only works of art, but also just and nonviolent social institutions.

The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits. The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.

A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.'”