I do believe that the analogy for bisexuality is a multicultural, multi-ethnic, multiracial world view. Bisexuality follows from such a perspective and leads to it, as well.

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

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.

Sometimes we become so sophisticated we have to read the New York Times in order to figure out whether it's a hot or a rainy day.

I am a stranger, learning to love the strangers around me

Reproductive choice is not some trendy item to toss or keep around the house. If you cannot get an education or a job, if you cannot choose what will or will not happen with your own body, then what freedom do you have?

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.