Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires.

Behold the heart and mind of Angela Davis: open, relentless, and on time! She is as radiant, she is as true, as that invincible sunrise she means means means to advance With all of the faith and all of the grace of her entirely devoted life.

The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think

The United States Supreme Court, once a reliable if ultimate recourse for progressive and even revolutionary grievances, has become a retrograde wellspring for enormous economic and social distress.

As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language; every human use of words that is joyful, or honest or new, because experience is new... But as a Black poet and writer, I hate words that cancel my name and my history and the freedom of my future: I hate the words that condemn and refuse the language of my people in America.

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.

We are the ones we've been waiting for.