Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.

We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.

A grown child is a dangerous thing.

Decide that you know what you think is good for you and go ahead and do it.

Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.

Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don't even recognize that growth is happening...Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.