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

"I begin to understand that a white woman of the South can live and write, but not of the dead heroes. She can live an…"

"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."