America is America. It's a capitalist system. They [leaders] have enshrined that belief that profit matters more than anything else. The polarization of the society is just the resurfacing of that.

Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.

I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

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.

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

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.