Like Running Trying To Live A Good

To Rescue Our Children We Will Have To Let Them Save Us From The Power We Embody: We Will Have To Trust The Very Difference That They Forever Personify.

If Any Of Us Hopes To Survive, She Must Meet The Extremity Of The American Female Condition With Immediate And Political Response. The Thoroughly Destructive And Indefensible Subjugation Of The Majority Of Americans Cannot Continue Except At The Peril Of The Entire Body Politic.

But, Based On My Friendship With Evie As Young Mothers, I Started Going On Freedom Rides In 1966.

The First Function Of Poetry Is To Tell The Truth, To Learn How To Do That, To Find Out What You Really Feel And What You Really Think

I Wrote Those Poems For Myself, As A Way Of Being A Soldier Here In This Country. I Didn't Know The Poems Would Travel. I Didn't Go To Lebanon Until Two Years Ago, But People Told Me That Many Arabs Had Memorized These Poems And Translated Them Into Arabic.