As a black woman my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.

You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip.

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.

The world is governed by opinion.

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be for the world an example of a genuinely free democratic just and humane society.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for as for me I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.

Clarity clarity surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world A limited limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.

All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people.

It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.

If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield.

I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.

If there were no poetry on any day in the world poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.