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

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.

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.

In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.

Men are always ready to fight

I'm named after my great grand-mother...while you've never heard of her, in my mind she's practically a celebrity.

If you entrust God with your 'here,' He will take you 'there.' If you give Him your 'now,' He will take care of 'then.'

All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

It is reasonable not to make any budget adjustments in the first quarter of 2015

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.

When things don't go well, it helps to think of yourself as a genius and the rest of the world as a bunch of idiots.

Writing is still like heaving bricks over a wall.