Demands for equality need to be as complicated as the inequalities they seek to address.

White privilege is an absence of the consequences of racism. An absence of structural discrimination, an absence of your race being viewed as a problem first and foremost.

Every voice raised against racism chips away at its power. We can't afford to stay silent.

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

A bull that allows a he goat to deter it from moving forward is nothing but a mere he goat

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

Union of hearts, not hands, does a marriage make, and sympathy of mind keeps love awake.

When I get old and slow down I want to look behind me and see all the fire and the wreckage and no stone left unturned.

Between the dreams of night and day there is not so great a difference.

I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.

In the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves.

Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go, Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!

I get some of my best ideas while out walking.