When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.

The music is in minors.

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

It is brave to be involved

I shall create! If not a note, a hole./If not an overture, a desecration.

As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.