"In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the New Left."

“I am sick of the girl who cries 'wolf' all the time. Even though not one of those cries was ever a false alarm”

“Dance until the earth dance.”

Source : Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.224, New Directions Publishing

“They are all different and I find it hard to tell what flute suits me best.”

“Pinetop could find the cracks and fill them in and be the glue and mortar of the whole band.”

“This is a career about images. It's celluloid; they last for ever. I'm a black woman from America. My people were slaves in America, and even though we're free on paper and in law, I'm not going to allow you to enslave me on film, in celluloid, for all to see.”

Source : "Question time". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2009.

“I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school in Compton for two years.”

“All my years to this moment All my roads to this wall. All my words to this silence All my pride to this fall. -Songs of Sapphique”

“It is often said that ‘the germ of all Stalinism was in Bolshevism at its beginning’. Well, I have no objection. Only, Bolshevism also contained many other germs, a mass of other germs, and those who lived through the enthusiasm of the first years of the first victorious socialist revolution ought not to forget it. To judge the living man by the death germs which the autopsy reveals in the corpse – and which he may have carried in him since his birth – is that very sensible?”