I long to create something that can't be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other..

Re-vision -- the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction - is for women more than a cha….

A language is a map of our failures.

I've known great happiness in my life along with great darkness, and a question that has repeatedly entered my poetry has been, how do we use the dir….

Strangers are an endangered species..

For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are forbidden to see..

The password is a flicker of an eyelash..

What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion. What I'm finding is that in ….

We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body. In such a world women will truly create new life, bringing ….

... in a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets, poetry becomes more necessary than ever: it keeps th….

When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her..

I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope..

There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected..

When someone, let's say a teacher, speaks of the world and you are not in it, it's like looking into the mirror and seeing nothing..

Saw you walking barefoot taking a long look at the new moon's eyelid later spread sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair asleep but not oblivious of t….

In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence..

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

Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction..

We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn't themselves write,on the grounds that ….

The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle..

A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being..