I will bring you a whole person, You will bring me a whole person, And we will have us twice as much, Of love and everything.

No single living entity really influenced my life as did my father ... He lived as if he were poured from iron, and loved his family with a vulnerability that was touching.

I try for a poetic language that says, This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is where we must go. And this is what we must do.

Idiom is larger than geography it is the hot breath of a people singing, slashing, explorative. Imagery becomes the magic denominator, the language of a passage, saying the ancient unchanging particulars.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

To identify the enemy is to free the mind.

Education is the Jewel casting brilliance into the future