"I understood finally that this heroic will to endure is still not the same as the will to change, the true rebellion.…"

"It's important to deal directly with lesbian issues, whether or not one does that as an open lesbian teacher. It's im…"

"I don't think about my writing as being about fame. I think of it in a communal context. Yet it's naive and apolitica…"

"I wrote that poem ["All the Women Caught in Flaring Light"] because, at the time I was writing the book [Crime Agains…"

"Aye, think! Since time and life began, Your mind has only feared and slept; Of all the beasts they called you man Onl…"

"Would you end war? Create great Peace."

"To be a god First I must be a god-maker: We are what we create."

"Hearts starve as well as bodies: Give us Bread, but give us Roses."

"Up in the heights of the evening skies I see my City of Cities float In sunset’s golden and crimson dyes: I look, and…"

"They can only set free men free... And there is no need of that: Free men set themselves free."