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I am a woman. And I am seeking an attitude. I am trying to find reasons for pride.

If you are free, you are not predictable and you are not controllable.

I am the history of the rejection of who I am

If you are free, you are not predicatable and you are not controllable.

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.

But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.

CORE was committed to nonviolence, but I was not.

We survive our love because we go on loving.

I am not wrong: Wrong is not my name

Sometimes we become so sophisticated we have to read the New York Times in order to figure out whether it's a hot or a rainy day.

It means to educate myself incessantly about the world around me.

the problem of gender identity is our evasion of the implications of power and our may-I-say-"feminine" inclinations to make nice. War is not nice.

The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet.

There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth.

I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest.

Freedom is indivisible or it is nothing at all besides sloganeering and temporary, short-sighted, and short-lived advancement for a few.

The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think.

I am a stranger, learning to love the strangers around me

Freedom is indivisible, and either we are working for freedom or you are working for the sake of your self-interests and I am working for mine.

I am a woman searching for her savagery
even if it's doomed

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

My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.

Revolution always unfolds inside an atmosphere of rising expectations.

My heart is not peripheral to me.

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

A man is not a tree' ... If we remain where we start from we will neither grow nor flourish.

Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important.

I am the history of battery assault and limitless
armies against whatever I want to do with my mind and my body and my soul

To believe is to become what you believe.

I am working never to be late again.

To begin is no more agony than opening your hand.

This is the difficult miracle of Black poetry in America: that we persist, published or not, and loved or unloved: we persist.

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

As I am a poet I express what I believe, and I fight against whatever I oppose, in poetry.

Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who I am?

Maybe the purpose of being here, wherever we are, is to increase the durability and occasions of love among and between peoples.

Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires ...

I believe that love is the single, true prosperity of any moment.

A democratic state is not proven by the welfare of the strong but by the welfare of the weak.