I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity.

I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.

Because every single one of us has something to say to the others, something that deserves to be celebrated or forgiven by others

Celebration of the Human Voice--- When it is genuine, when it is born of the need to speak, no one can stop the human voice. When denied a mouth, it speaks with the hands or the eyes, or the pores, or anything at all. Because every single one of us has something to say to the others, something that deserves to be celebrated or forgiven by others.

The world is becoming an immense military base, and that base is becoming a mental hospital the size of the world. Inside the nuthouse, which ones are crazy?

The poet, distracted by politics, asks of poetry that it make itself useful like metal or flour, that it get ready to stain its face with coal dust and fight body to body.

The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.