Crisis can be an addiction as powerful as any other.
I do believe deeply that all human beings, male and female, are sexual beings, most likely bisexual beings channeled this way and that by cultures terrified of boundary crossings without passports stamped gay or straight.
The present always masquerades as a beginning; maybe we couldn't endure it if we realized at the time that it was a peak, or even an ending.
Legitimate revolution must be led by, made by those who have been most oppressed: black, brown, yellow, red, and white women-with men relating to that the best they can.
I am an artist and a political being as well.
raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?
For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.
What would we do without irony? Check out your own daily reliance on it, the foul-weather friend who's there for you when nothing else is.
Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections.
I still gasp at the revealing lingo for weapons: erector launchers, thrust ratios; my teeth grind reflexively when Dubya sputters Eye-Rack and Eye-Ran have 'nookyular capabacity.
guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.
Women are a colonized people.
every actor knows that tragedy, being linear and inevitable, is taxing - but comedy, which depends on the element of surprise, is the hardest act of all.
in the United States ... given the cult of eternal youth, age is ignored unless it can be sentimentalized.
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