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.

There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man's shirt on its morning run.

The music is in minors.

Poetry is life distilled.

Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.

Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.

Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.