When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn't matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.

But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society.

I soon discovered that if you keep your mouth shut, people are apt to believe you know everything, and they begin to feel freer and freer to tell you anything, anxious to show that they know something, too.

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.

The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.

So it is better to speak, remembering we were never meant to survive.

Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded.