“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.”
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There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth.
But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.
I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.
To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.
