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.

I shall create! If not a note, a hole./If not an overture, a desecration.

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.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.

There are no magics or elves / Or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must / Wizard a track through our own screaming weed.

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

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