A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
Poetry is life distilled.
No man can give me any word but Wait.
I've always thought of myself as a reporter.
I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.