I been with strangers all day and they treated me like family. I come in here to family and you treat me like a stranger.

I may be personable, but I assure you I am a lion.

My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden.

You are responsible for the world that you live in. It is not government's responsibility. It is not your school's or your social club's or your church's or your neighbor's or your fellow citizen's. It is yours, utterly and singularly yours.

The details of our struggle to survive and prosper, in what has been a difficult and sometimes bitter relationship with a system of laws and practices that deny us access to the tools necessary for productive and industrious life, are available to any serious student of history or sociology.

I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.

I cried a river of tears but he was too heavy to float on them. So I dragged him with me these years across an ocean.