To identify the enemy is to free the mind.

No single living entity really influenced my life as did my father ... He lived as if he were poured from iron, and loved his family with a vulnerability that was touching.

Idiom is larger than geography it is the hot breath of a people singing, slashing, explorative. Imagery becomes the magic denominator, the language of a passage, saying the ancient unchanging particulars.

I will bring you a whole person, You will bring me a whole person, And we will have us twice as much, Of love and everything.

Who can be born black and not exult!

I am a black woman the music of my song some sweet arpeggio of tears is written in a minor key and I can be heard humming in the night Can be heard humming in the night

For the span of my memory, this has been a city of opposing wills.