I who have gone the gamut from an almost angry rejection of my dark skin by some of my brainwashed brothers and sisters to a surprised queenhood in the new Black sunam qualified to enter at least the kindergarten of new consciousness now... I have hopes for myself.

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.

Be careful what you swallow. Chew!

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.

What shall I give my children? who are poor, / Who are adjudged the leastwise of the land...

The poetry is myself.