I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

Freedom is never free.

Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Love liberates. It doesn't just hold, that's ego. Love liberates.

Being a woman is hard work.