Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.

There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.

You cannot use someone else's fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.

I am very, very happy for Alice Walker.

For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.

I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there