In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.

When we define ourselves, when I define myself, the place in which I am like you and the place in which I am not like you, I'm not excluding you from the joining - I'm broadening the joining.

Hatred is a death wish for the hated, not a life wish for anything else.

We must recognize and nurture the creative parts of each other without always understanding what will be created.

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

Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care.

Poetry is not a luxury.