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You have discovered so much kindness and good will to those you thought were oppressed, and had no helper, that I am sure you will not despise what I have wrote, if you judge it will be of any service to them. ”
It is our duty to be faithful, not with eye service as men pleasers. ”
Long before the idea of multiculturalism, in public people could say almost anything to you and get away with it. ”
The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public. ”
It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. ”
Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency. ”
Ryan Leaf is doing great now. If he progresses the way he is now, we're going to have a quarterback that's going to be reckoned with in the near future. And that's not political. ”
Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth. ”
That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes. ”
To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way. ”