Life for my child is simple, and is good.

The poetry is myself.

When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.

To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.

I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.