The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet

That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.

I care because I want you to care about me. I care because I have become aware of my absolute dependency upon you, whoever you are, for the outcome of my social, my democratic experience.

I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest.

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

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.

It means to educate myself incessantly about the world around me.