The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.

Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.

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.

from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship

Thought is more important than art....To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.

Hope is delicate suffering.

I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes.