Anything we love can be saved.

If a person is hit hard enough, even if she stands, she falls.

I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.

Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.

I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and sit on your couch.

Find yourself a cup of tea; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things. Saki Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see.