I think all poems are commissioned. They just come to me without somebody outside commissioning them. The idea comes and I will live with them 'til I get it as close to what I mean. I've never been totally satisfied. I've come close a few times.

I am a woman phenomenally, phenomenal woman that is your grandmother, that is your mother, that is your sister, that is you and that is me.

Laugh as much as you can.

I couldn't tell fact from fiction, Or if the dream was true My only sure prediction In this world was you. I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost.

Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone.

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

We must create a climate where people agree that human beings are more alike than unalike. The only way to do that is through education.