My responsibility is to truth and beauty.
Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.
You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.
The future is always here in the past
The African, because of the violent differences between what was native and what he was forced to in slavery, developed some of the most complex and complicated ideas about the world imaginable.
Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.