I wish that she had had a black loon because I don't think that Nina [Simone] did. I have always had - I've been very fortunate - a group of little old ladies that I love and who love me, and who turned and to whom I turn at different times.
Rage is to writers what water is to fish.
Show me someone not full of herself and I'll show you a hungry person.
VISIBILITY - You've got to find a way to make people know you're there
There are some things we do simply because the doing is a success.
Poets can tell the truth as they see it. It’s the author’s story, the author’s voice.