She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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.
Be yourself. Don't imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
... sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.