What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart?

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.

Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along.

I have demons you can't even imagine.

People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings.

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.

I used to live in New York, and I have friends that work in the fashion world, and I feel like I had an ear to the ground there.

In what a forge and what a heat were shaped the anchors of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock; 'Tis of the wave and not the rock.

Satan does not tempt us just to make us do wrong things- he tempts us to make us lose what God has put into us through regeneration, namely, the possibility of being of value to God.

All of my clients have athletic or curvy, healthy bodies.

Style is the perfection of a point of view.

Two words to improve any dish. Ba, Con