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.

Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.

Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.

I have always wanted to be both man and woman, to incorporate the strongest and richest parts of my mother and father within/into me - to share valleys and mountains upon my body the way the earth does in hills and peaks.

Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.

The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of our unexpressed or unrecognized feeling. . . .

Battling racism and battling heterosexism and battling apartheid share the same urgency inside me as battling cancer.