Nothing improves your writing, I think, as much as your keeping writing.

Everybody that loves freedom loves Harriet Tubman because she was determined not only to be free, but to make free as many people as she could.

Who I am really keeps surprising me.

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

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

Poems don't have to rhyme... Poems are about beauty and emotion; in other words poems are about feelings.

the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.