There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you

Most American white men are trained to be fags. For this reason it is no wonder their faces are weak and blank.

A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills

A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.

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.

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.

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