Schools should be integrated by race and by class.

One stands, in fact, in awe of the Constitution of the United States, though it is an idea and not quite a reality.

Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.

We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.

My work is a part of me and I know it. I have no reason to try to pick one part of me out from the rest. I only see my work, or rather I should say I see my work only telling my part of the human experience.

I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.

Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together.