“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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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.
But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.
The courts cannot garnish a father's salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat.
