Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a little bit, or we're not running hard enough, not really trying.

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.

...inability to lie is still far from being love to truth. Be on your guard! ... He who cannot lie, doth not know what truth is.

Responsible government is an off shoot of a culture of personal responsibility.

One day, I want enough money to be at the center of a corruption scandal.

All punk rockers hate Christmas.

One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.

Paralysis of leadership is due in part to the unseen grip of the special interests.

Be gentle, kind and beautiful, yet firm and strong, both mentally and physically.

If you think or fear too much, you can't get far!

The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation.

The cure for the greatest part of human miseries is not radical, but palliative.