For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.

I feel that 'man-hating' is an honourable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.

Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.

Sisterhood is powerful.

In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily.

We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.

Hate generalizes; love specifies. Or: The movements of hatred are toward generalization; love's movements are toward specification.

Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers

Make your heart the most beautiful home.

I don't have what it takes to inspire someone to become a "worldly" musician or rapper! I can't use the power God gave me yesterday to work against the Kingdom God set up many years ago!

I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.

Why can't I be the adorable one?

Words deserted him immediately. He could only speak when he was not asked to.

Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.

The goal I seek is to have people refine their style through my clothing without having them become victims of fashion.

Now I am almost entirely love.

In a lot of places, of course, the '80s had never really come to an end.

Global warming competes with cancer and competes with AIDS for a finite amount of money. Nobody ever won that fight by saying: My issue isn't important.