Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content.

Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have.

People will say to you, "Oh, you are fearless." That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It's a slander, really.

Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.

How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.