Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
I don't like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.
Poetry is life distilled.
It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.