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.

Overall, white men run America. From nuclear armaments to the filth and jeopardy of New York City subways to the cruel mismanagement of health care, is there anything to boast about?

Maybe the purpose of being here, wherever we are, is to increase the durability and occasions of love among and between peoples.

... the histories of Blacks and Jews in bondage and out of bondage, have been blood histories pursued through our kindred searchings for self-determination. Let this blood be a stain of honor that we share. Let us not now become enemies to ourselves and to each other.

Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important.

As I am a poet I express what I believe, and I fight against whatever I oppose, in poetry.

If you are free, you are not predictable and you are not controllable.