Quotes About Empowerment

The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.

Don't be someone else's slogan because you are poetry.

That's all you really hope for from a book – that it's going to resonate with young people and empower them in some way. I believe poetry can get kids reading.

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.

Poetry is my politics. It's an opportunity that gives me a way to speak.

Poetry is not a luxury.

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.

Poetry gave me back my voice.

Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

Learn poetry by heart. If you know a poem by heart, no one can take it away from you, and you can take advantage of it anytime.

I would like my books to stand as a tool to unbind children from expectations of poetry because it should free the child to self-expression and exploration.

You do not have to be good.You do not have to walk on your kneesfor a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

a woman will tell youevery home she has ever inhabitedhas been broken intostarting with her body

You keep playing with what broke you, then wonder why you don't heal.Leave the wound alone, throw away the poison, and watch the magic of recovery.Your wings of wisdom are ready for flight.

Words have never belonged to those who wrote them. Always to those who needed then.

Soul SisterEvoking all my inner goodnesswith bastions of timeI cradle your heartsisterly into mine...

do not look for healingat the feet of thosewho broke you

Learn to use your third eye and you'll be able to see beyond the sky. There is no limit, except that which you impose upon yourself.

Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends.

The practice of love is the most powerful antidote to the politics of domination.

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.