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.

But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.

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

To begin is no more agony than opening your hand.

If any of us hopes to survive, she must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response. The thoroughly destructive and indefensible subjugation of the majority of Americans cannot continue except at the peril of the entire body politic.

When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different ... we laughed at them. We condemned them, our children, for seeking a different future. We hated them for their flowers, for their love, and for their unmistakable rejection of every hideous, mistaken compromise that we had made throughout our hollow, money-bitten, frightened, adult lives

Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a little bit, or we're not running hard enough, not really trying.