Afraid is a country with no exit visas.

Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.

We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a force which moves us toward living in a fundamental way.

Say what you have to say now! Don't wait until you're sending blips from the other side.

When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture.

... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action. 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.

Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.