“In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.”
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But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.
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.
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.