The artist should fear to become the slave of detail.
I am working never to be late again.
To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.
Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires.
Maybe the purpose of being here, wherever we are, is to increase the durability and occasions of love among and between peoples.
Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.
What's important about poetry in the context of leadership is that most of the time, power has to do with dominance. But poetry is never about dominance. Poetry is powerful but it cannot even aspire to dominate anyone. It means making a connection. That's what it means.
Can an idea a notion as abstract as Relativism produce by itself the effects alleged? cause all the harm, destroy all the lives and reputations? I am as far as anyone can be from denying the power of ideas in history, but the suggestion that a philosophy (as Relativism is often called) has perverted millions and debased daily life is on the face of it absurd. No idea working alone has ever demoralized society, and there have been plenty of ideas simpler and more exciting than Relativism.
Open your arms as wide as you can to receive all the miracles with your name on them. Never forget that all you have is all you need.
Never quit, you have to resist to the utmost. 'Til you drop, like a Samurai
That person I was when I was a lot younger is not who I am today.