I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest.

Bisexuality means I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to love a man, and what about that? Isn't that what freedom implies?

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires.

We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.

Maybe the purpose of being here, wherever we are, is to increase the durability and occasions of love among and between peoples.

Overall, white men run America. From nuclear armaments to the filth and jeopardy of New York City subways to the cruel mismanagement of health care, is there anything to boast about?

Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who I am?

To tell the truth is to become beautiful.

If you are free, you are not predictable and you are not controllable.

We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

If one comes across sometimes as being cold or brusque, it's simply because I'm striving for the best.

The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare.

In some cases, managers and employees have secured pensions beyond their original base salary. It is wrong, the people doing it know it's wrong, and we have to put an end to it.

Any moment you're willing to give up your fig leaves, which you think are covering you, God will give you His righteousness, which will really cover you.

Only in death will I relinquish my belts.

I would challenge any American cook, regardless of what they've learned from their mom, to operate a restaurant and not have spent any real time in Italy.

Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.

I hope that there will be no particular need for us to attract external funding. It is worth noting that despite the fact the turnover is smaller now we are still maintaining a trade surplus.

The best way to prepare for the coming of Christ is never to forget the presence of Christ.