What else have I done nearly all my life than go hungry and go on singing?

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.

I remember in my early 20s when I felt I couldn't live past 30. I was learning how to write. I had a lot of hard work ahead of me.

Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams.

Somebody's little girl- how easy it is to make a sob story over who she once was and who she now is.

The impact of television on our culture is just indescribable.