Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.

I am this space my body believes in.

I knew life Began where I stood in the dark, Looking out into the light.

Poetry helps me understand who I am. It helps me understand the world around me. But above all, what poetry has taught me is the fact that I need to embrace mystery in order to be completely human.

Tonight I feel the stars are out to use me for target practice.

I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.

We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.

It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.

I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.

I think of language as our first music.

I said that love heals from inside.

I don't want other people to decide what I am. I want to decide that for myself.

You are all you will ever have for certain .

For me, it's a great joy to be together with priests: in the end, the bishop of Rome is the bishop and brother of all priests. His mandate is to confirm the brothers in the faith.

They can't save enough without fundamentally altering the line, and for that, you have to go back to the voters.

Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own - my words are gone.

My goal is to always play interesting and very odd women.

There's always a melody running around in my mind and my brain; and I'm really thankful for it.

The image you project, in many circumstances, is far more valuable than your skills or your record of past accomplishments.

Now, I'm getting a little older, got more responsibility, I don't need to be depressed.

You know, I think this is the first time we've ever done anything normal together.