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.

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

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

Writing is a delicious agony.

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

The poetry is myself.

We are each other's magnitude and bond.