For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.

... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at.

When solutions are offered us by the people who originally brought us the problem, we do well to be suspicious.

Listen - life is really going on, right now, around us. Do you see it? Sometimes I lose it but if I sit still and listen, it comes back, and then I think, How funny, this is what being alive is.

guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

An indigenous feminism has been present in every culture in the world and in every period of history since the suppression of women began.