It's a wonderful thing to know that there is something to know there is something greater than I am, and that is God itself.

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential.

We are growing up. We are growing up! Out of the idiocies - the ignorances of racism and sexism and ageism and all those ignorances.

Poetry helps my soul escape its encasement.

Strong women- precious jewels all- their humanness is evident in their accessibility. We are able to enter into the spirit of these women and rejoice in their warmth and courage.

We need language to tell us who we are, how we feel, what we're capable of- to explain the pains and glory of our existence.

Reality has changed chameleonlike before my eyes so many times that I have learned, or am learning, to trust almost anything except what appears to be so.