What I am really interested in is that I want people to be thinking in other ways - to stop thinking they have to remain glued to a system that has failed and to ideas about society that's necessarily about being run by Democrats or Republicans.

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

Whenever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. I have been helped, supported, encouraged and nurtured by people of all races, creeds, colors and dreams.

Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.

When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.

it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.