All writers have periods when they stop writing, when they cannot write, and this is always painful and terrible because writing is like breathing.

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

June Jordan once said something which is just wonderful. I'm paraphrasing her-that her function as a poet was to make revolution irresistible. Well o.k. that is the function of us all, as creative artists, to make the truth, as we see it irresistible.

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

pornography is a direct denial of the power of the erotic, for it represents the suppression of true feeling. Pornography emphasizes sensation without feeling.

The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.

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.