My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

I have never been one for the over-the-top.

In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Bisexuality means I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to love a man, and what about that? Isn't that what freedom implies?

We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.