Sometimes we become so sophisticated we have to read the New York Times in order to figure out whether it's a hot or a rainy day.

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.

The ego hurts you like this: you become obsessed with the one person who does not love you. blind to the rest who do.

The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.

It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.

When a man is starving in the streets he is not thinking of bread and water, but of caviar and champagne!

I was a fat-headed guy, full of pain.

The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.

What you have to do with your mind, when your body is miserable, is to make it think of something else.

Handicaps can be converted into stepping stones on which one may climb toward some worthy goal, unless they are accepted as obstacles, and used as alibis.

Various are the uses of friends, beyond all else in difficulty, but joy also looks for trust that is clear in the eyes.

If you're having trouble waking up for fajr, set your alarm to play Quran. It works!