Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

One of the major differences I see in the political climate today is that there is less collective support for coming to critical consciousness – in communities, in institutions, among friends.

Writing is prayer.

One of the most remarkable contributions of humans to the world is our capacity for ideas.

PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.

Every time I get injured I measure it's severity by asking myself 'Would this stop me from going to Disneyland?'

Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living.

Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous.

Tantric Zen, and the people who practice it, of course, make some people feel extremely uncomfortable.

So there really was a whole series of things that took the women of my generation a little bit of time to push forward.

America is racial. America was founded on race. Race is America. The code name for America is 'race.'

Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right.