The thing about genius is it will never yield to circumstances. Genius regards what's given as the beginning of its need to find or devise something else.

In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.

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.

I am the history of the rejection of who I am

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

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.

To tell the truth is to become beautiful.