We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.

My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.

We must use what we have to invent what we desire.

Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.

The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.

If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.

Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.

Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.

I would fly to the moon with my wings of love so that I could express my lifelong admiration of you.

It was a scary thought. A man could be surrounded by poetry reading and not know it.

Women are women…How can they ignore their bodies, their looks, and above all, their dresses!

Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.

The farmer's daughter hath soft brown hair And I met with a ballad, I can't say where, That wholly consisted of lines like these.

Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.

Anytime you get men in glitter, it's a flamboyant occasion!

I'm most certainly not the Beatles.

Next to a shot of some good, habit-forming narcotic, there is nothing like travelling alone as a 'builder-upper.

Whether *****s's feel me or not regardless style heartless foul Spit in front of the hardest crowds If They start booing I'm sticking fans Artest style