If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.

We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn't themselves write,on the grounds that it is unserious, unscholarly, a fad, too "political," "merely" oral and thus unreliable.

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege

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.

Over many years so many poets have touched my imagination and opened paths for me - it hardly makes sense to list them. I have always read a great deal of poetry.

The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.