We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

I personally have never trusted museums. ... It is because museums, broadly speaking, live off of the art and artifacts of others, often art and artifacts that have been obtained by dubious means. But they also manipulate whatever it is they present to the public; hence, until Judy Chicago, in the 1970s ... few women artists were hung in any major museum. Indian artists? Artifacts only, please. Black artists? Something musical, maybe? And so forth.

Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.

As for those who think the Arab world promises freedom, the briefest study of its routine traditional treatment of blacks (slavery) and women (purdah) will provide relief from all illusion. If Malcolm X had been a black woman his last message to the world would have been entirely different. The brotherhood of Moslem men-all colors-may exist there, but part of the glue that holds them together is the thorough suppression of women.

I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am.

Drew Dellinger is a deep and courageous poet. How lucky we are!

It is natural to want to have a future.