Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important.

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.

Kindness is the highest form of service to the humanity.

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

My goal is not to frighten you. My goal is to make you fight your fears.

It wasn't just one journalist getting it wrong, everybody was getting it wrong.

Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.

A theory is a battlefield in your head.

I have to go out there and show scouts and GMs and coaches just what I can do: Run as fast as I can and try to show them I have great hands and good technique where I can be on the line blocking.

People say I look younger than the music I'm doing just because the songs are older. Hopefully I can keep my youthful look!

Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee.