To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

I am not wrong: Wrong is not my name

My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.

That a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

The courts cannot garnish a fathers salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat.

We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.

Good poetry and successful revolution change our lives. And you cannot compose a good poem or wage a revolution without changing consciousness unless you attack the language that you share with your enemies and invent a language that you share with your allies.