I said that love heals from inside.

I am this space my body believes in.

I knew life Began where I stood in the dark, Looking out into the light.

Poetry helps me understand who I am. It helps me understand the world around me. But above all, what poetry has taught me is the fact that I need to embrace mystery in order to be completely human.

Tonight I feel the stars are out to use me for target practice.

I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.

We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.

It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.

I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.

I think of language as our first music.

I’ve been here before, dreaming myself backwards, among grappling hooks of light. True to the seasons, I’ve lived every word spoken. Did I walk into someone’s nightmare?

Man tames not vengeance

The freedom is really free only happened in this life: after life is pseudo freedom

You really have to have some muscle to be on the stage in front of the world.

I was really bummed when I got to the last one of Tony Hillerman Navajo detective books.

Whenever the dollar is held supreme and capitalistic interests dominate, a higher value will always be placed upon property rights than upon human rights.

Something happens when your subconscious goes to work... That's why 'Sleep on it' is an adage.

Wherever work is done, victory is attained.

We have an exceptional natural wealth that is environmentally friendly.

I would love to be a Franciscan brother. Im just not sure I have the courage to do it.

Never argue, repeat your assertion.