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?

Anytime you see white men suppose to fight each other an you not white, well you know you got trouble, because they blah-blah loud about Democrat or Republican an they huffing an puff about democracy someplace else but relentless, see, the deal come down evil on somebody don have no shirt an tie, somebody don live in no whiteman house no whiteman country.

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.

There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth.

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.

As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language.

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