Self-reflection is a desire felt by the body, as well as the soul. As dancers, healers, and saints all know, when you turn your attention toward even….

We are the bird's eggs. Bird's eggs, flowers, butterflies, rabbits, cows, sheep, we are caterpillars; we are leaves of ivy and springs of wildflower.….

But still, the other voice, the intuitive, returns, like grass forcing its way through concrete..

I know I am made from this earth, as my mother's hands were made from this earth, as her dreams came from this earth and all that I know, I know in t….

I think artists can go to a level of vision that can often save us from a situation which seems to have no solution whatsoever..

We are nature. We are nature seeing nature. The red-winged blackbird flies in us..

War starts in the mind, not in the body..

What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim..

Far more frightening than the thought of dying was the experience of erasure already occurring in my life. My fear of becoming someone who did not co….

Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope..

Each time I write, each time the authentic words break through, I am changed. The older order that I was collapses and dies. I lose control. I do not….

Yes we are devilish; that is true we cackle. Yes we are dark like the soil and wild like the animals. And we turn to each other and stare into this d….

we are nature. We are nature seeing nature. We are nature with a concept of nature. Nature weeping. Nature speaking of nature to nature..

Even in the grimmest of circumstances, a shift in perspective can create startling change..

A story is told as much by silence as by speech..

Each life reverberates in every other life. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are connected, woven together in our needs and desires, rich and poo….

Every time I deny myself I commit a kind of suicide..

Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, yo….

Every important social movement reconfigures the world in the imagination. What was obscure comes forward, lies are revealed, memory shaken, new deli….

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically ….

This earth is my sister; I love her daily grace, her silent daring, and how loved I am. How we admire this strength in each other, all that we have l….