“Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone. Creativity erodes all barriers.”

“When those who have power to name and to socially construct reality choose not to see you or hear you whether you are dark-skinned old disabled female or speak with a different accent or dialect than theirs when someone with the authority of a teacher describes the world and you are not in it there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium”

“All of humanitys problems stem from mans inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”

“Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.”