One place that richness does emerge is in The Language of life , an anthology of thirty contemporary American poets, interviewed by Bill Moyers. Whereas The Promise of Diversity deals with the organization as a social system, The Language of Life brings the richness of personal emotional experience into play. Taken together, they bring a verity and depth to the subject. Those interested in servant-leadership must pay attention at both the system and the individual level. We have to be willing to examine our organizational systems, structures, processes and policies for exclusionary practices and to take action when we find that they aren't as inclusionary as we want.
Power is one of the themes that connects The Promise of Diversity to servant-leadership.
These points of tension, she contends, are the crucible from which the poetic urge springs. The issue of inclusion in our society is clearly one of those points. She sees a renaissance of poetry flowing from the voices of the historically oppressed. Going further, she points out that America's dark secret is that it is not a democracy. The Promise of Diversity starts from the same perspective.