Wars make people rich - and they make a lot of people poor, and they take a lot of people's lives away from them.

Without justice there can be no love.

A generous heart is always open, always ready to receive our going and coming. In the midst of such love we need never fear abandonment. This is the most precious gift true love offers - the experience of knowing we always belong.

I would also say that, in practice, many more Americans are anarchists than would ever use that term.

The notion that black folks have nothing to learn from scholarship that may reflect racial or racist biases is dangerous. It promotes closed-mindedness and a narrow understanding of knowledge to hold that "race" is such an overwhelming concept that it negates the validity of any insights contained in a work that may have some racist or sexist aspects.

It is poetry that changes everything.

Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis.