A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.
Hope is delicate suffering.
The attempt to divide art and politics is a bourgeois which says good poetry, art, cannot be political, but since everything is … political, even an artist or work that claims not to have any politics is making a political statement by that act.
Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.
I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes.
If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These are the white man's roads.