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.

The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political

The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.

I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There's always going to be a kind of tidal movement back and forth between the two.

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

In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence.

For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.