My father was both the person who gave me reason to learn how to fight and the one who taught me the basics of fighting. He would tell me that if it was a big fight, it would probably be uneven, it wouldn't be fair

What's important about poetry in the context of leadership is that most of the time, power has to do with dominance. But poetry is never about dominance. Poetry is powerful but it cannot even aspire to dominate anyone. It means making a connection. That's what it means.

In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

I believe that love is the single, true prosperity of any moment.

Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a little bit, or we're not running hard enough, not really trying.

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.

We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.