Freedom is indivisible, and either we are working for freedom or you are working for the sake of your self-interests and I am working for mine.

I am not wrong: Wrong is not my name

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

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.

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

Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law.

I am the history of the rejection of who I am