She [my mother] gave me permission to wonder, to dawdle, to daydream.

The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible

Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion. I've seen them doing it. Words set up atmospheres, electrical fields, charges.

(M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect . . . you know . . . like being people.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.... We'd better take the time to fashion revolutionary selves, revolutionary lives, revolutionary relationships. Mouth don't win the war.

Writing is a legitimate way, an important way, to participate in the empowerment of the community that names me.

The only proper mask to wear in life is your own damn face.

TAKE HEART TO FLAT OUT DECIDE TO BE WELL AND STRIDE INTO THE FUTURE, SANE AND WHOLE

The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.

When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did.

Write a lot and hit the streets. A writer who doesn't keep up with what's out there ain't gonna be out there.

I know there are powers I can't discern and things that bend and shape us that we cannot see.

We’re both made of stars, Jory Birch. Everybody is.

When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.

Our country is being run by incompetent people.

I just dress up what the Good Lord provides.

Thou canst not force my soul to wish thee ill, That is the only evil that can kill.

Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy...Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.

It’s a trick Ben taught me to help settle my Noise. You close yer eyes and as clearly and calmly as you can you tell yerself who you are, cuz that’s what gets lost in all that Noise.

I don't have an ideal type; I'm more of a love-at-first-sight guy.

It's amazing as women how many excuses we make when a guy doesn't call or text. It's unbelievable.