Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.

I know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love, no ecstasy like that of a new love.

We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families, our culture, our religions. It is an enormous task because the history of women has been as incompletely told as the history of blacks.

..he made me understand something very important. Whether because I am a Latin, or because I am a neurotic, I have a need of gestures. I am myself expressive, demonstrative; every feeling I have takes on expression: words, gestures, signs, letters, articulateness or action. I need this in others.

There are books which we read early in life, which sink into our consciousness and seem to disappear without leaving a trace. And then one day we find, in some summing-up of our life and put attitudes towards experience, that their influence has been enormous.

The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty.

You are the poet, you walk inside my dreams.