Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important.

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

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

That a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

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

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

The courts cannot garnish a fathers salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat.