The United States Supreme Court, once a reliable if ultimate recourse for progressive and even revolutionary grievances, has become a retrograde wellspring for enormous economic and social distress.

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.

The lack of power is the source of all unhappiness

Great! He has indigestion, so let's torture him with cake.

In just - Spring when the world is mud- luscious the little lame balloonman whistles far and wee

I have some favorites. I love Chaplin; I mean I really love Chaplin. I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.

The method of Fluxions is the general key by help whereof the modern mathematicians unlock the secrets of Geometry, and consequently of Nature.

The foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principle of private morality.

But, those who did good to Allah and the people, Allah will give them reward by bestowing upon them His grace.

Don't write poems to make girls like you, because it will not make them like you but it will give them something to quote back at you later in life.

For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the dictionary.

If I had to choose, it would be dancing. Dancing is my first passion and it's gotten me where I am today.