We survive our love because we go on loving.

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.

Lost spirit. Judges without justice, priest without religion.

Out there is South Dakota, " Kitch had said, "Matt said they treated Fern like some kind of animal.

If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.

The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.

If I am interested, amazed, stimulated to work, that is sufficient reason to thank the gods, and go ahead!

There are not millions of deaths. It happens millions of times that someone dies.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

I think, Larry, one of the things is I'm a very active person.

Don't ask the mind to confirm what is beyond the mind. Direct experience is the only valid confirmation.

It's funny, you make friends and you lose friends when you're making a movie.