Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a little bit, or we're not running hard enough, not really trying.

The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet

Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a little bit, or we're not running hard enough, not really trying.

Behold the heart and mind of Angela Davis: open, relentless, and on time! She is as radiant, she is as true, as that invincible sunrise she means means means to advance With all of the faith and all of the grace of her entirely devoted life.

As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language; every human use of words that is joyful, or honest or new, because experience is new... But as a Black poet and writer, I hate words that cancel my name and my history and the freedom of my future: I hate the words that condemn and refuse the language of my people in America.

We survive our love because we go on loving.

The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think