The boys think they can all be athletes, and the girls think they can all be singers. That's the way to fame and success. ...as a group blacks must give up their illusions.

The boys think they can all be athletes, and the girls think they can all be singers. That's the way to fame and success. ...as a group blacks must give up their illusions.

I hate, loathe, and despise Christmas. It's a time when single people have to take cover or get out of town.

It is true that no one can harm the person who wears armor. But no one can help him either.

I marvel at the many ways we, as black people, bend but do not break.

...one of my motivating forces has been to recreate the world I know into a world I wish I could be in. Hence my optimism and happy endings.

I have never felt a placard and a poem are in any way similar.