... passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry.

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.

My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.

We must use what we have to invent what we desire.

Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.

The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.

If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.

Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.

Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.

We are always afraid to ask because we aren't afraid of the answer but the feeling of rejection

My daddy, Rev. A. D. King, my granddaddy, Martin Luther King, Senior - we are a family of faith, hope and love.

If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.

It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough.

What is public opinion? It is private indolence.

A little tomato who knows her onions can go out with an old potato and come home with a lot of lettuce and a couple of carats.

One of the greatest gifts that 'Homeland' has given me is it's affirming on a daily basis.

So I'm running in the park on Saturday, in shorts, thinking this [warm weather] is great, but are we all gonna die? You know? I can't, I can't figure this out.

During college I realized I had a music predisposition and really got involved in it. I started playing bass guitar. That was how I began to fit in.

Someday, when I'm awfully low, and the world is cold, I will feel a glow just thinking of you, and the way you look tonight.