Only dead people need loud music, you know.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

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

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.

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.

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