Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.

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

I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk between the raindrops.

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.

Poets can tell the truth as they see it. It’s the author’s story, the author’s voice.

If you are sitting there waiting for someone to tell you how wonderful you are, you'll never get anything done. Women need to get over being women. I'm tired of that socialization of women; that we are always supposed to be sitting around pleasing somebody.

Violence is like money in the bank; it's only helpful if you don't have to use it.