The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot..

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understandin….

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across ou….

If you come as softly As wind within the trees You may hear what I hear See what sorrow sees. If you come as lightly As threading dew I will take you….

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear mor….

Of all the art forms, poetry is the most economical. It is the one which is the most secret, which requires the least physical labor, the least mater….

Afraid is a country with no exit visas..

Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle wher….

When I speak of the erotic, then I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use o….

Silence has never brought us anything of worth..

I am still learning - how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail an….

The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready to kill yourself instead of your children..

I am on the cusp of change and the curve is shifting fast..

We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a force which moves us toward….

Institutionalized rejection of differences is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such a….

Oppression is as American as apple pie..

I have died too many deaths that were not mine..

pornography is a direct denial of the power of the erotic, for it represents the suppression of true feeling. Pornography emphasizes sensation withou….

There is a timbre of voice that comes from not being heard and knowing / you are not being heard / noticed only by others / not heard for the same re….

But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person….

You are the one that you are looking for..