1. “You just go where poetry is, whether it’s in your heart or your mind or in books or in places where there’s live poetry or recordings.”
2. “There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.”
3. “I know I walk in and out of several worlds each day.”
4. “All acts of kindness are lights in the war for justice.”
5. “True power does not amass through the pain and suffering of others.”
6. “I was born with eyes that can never close.”
7. “I could hear my abandoned dreams making a racket in my soul.”
8. “I come from a long line of revolutionaries.”
9. “Remember you are this universe and this universe is you.”
10. “The heart is a fist. It pockets prayer or holds rage.”
11. “To the destroyers, Earth is not a person. They will want more until there is no more to steal.”
12. “I was anything but history. I was the wind.”
13. “I started writing to save my life.”
14. “I chose poetry. Actually, poetry chose me.”
15. “Someone accompanies every soul from the other side when it enters this place. Usually it is an ancestor with whom that child share traits and gifts.”
