Anger is an appropriate reaction to racist attitudes, as is fury when the actions arising from those attitudes do not change.

You'd better name yourself, because, if you don't others will do it for you.

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.

Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action.

The strongest lesson I can teach my son is the same lesson I teach my daughter: how to be who he wishes to be for himself.

I am a bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.

We cannot settle for the pretenses of connection, or for the parodies of self-love.