"Writers must always speak out against racism and injustice...In terms of the responsibility of a poet, it is importan…"

"She writes often about the conditions of exile, assimilation, and loss, and her poetry has been hailed for powerfully…"

"I am gratified that some of my poems have served the people for decades. From the start of my career I waxed personal…"

"Am I not the poet of witness? Am I not a disciple of Nellie Sachs and Paul Celan trying to describe the horrors of th…"

"The Woman Warrior was a very important book in my life. I discovered it in 1977…in Amherst, Massachusetts. I was an u…"

"I was raised by my grandmother who spoke Toisan, a very ancient language. I see myself as part of the minority tribe.…"

"When we were young, we have to memorize those texts from Tu Fu and others. And my grandmother used to carry me on my …"

"it has to do with Du Bois’s idea of double consciousness: you inherit a set of values at home, and have to embrace an…"

"I am always fighting against the stereotype of the subservient female maiden. I want to shake up the assumptions abou…"

"Reading her, our sense of the possibilities of poetry is opened further, and we feel again what an active, powerful a…"